Hugh Seidman
Encyclopedia
Life
He has taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...
, The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
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His work appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Harper's, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review.
He lives in New York City
New York City
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Awards
- 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) for SOMEBODY STAND UP AND SING
- 2003, 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant
- 1990 Camden Poetry Award (Walt Whitman Center for the Arts)
- 1985, 1972, 1970 National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
fellowship - 1971 New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant
- 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets CompetitionYale Series of Younger Poets CompetitionThe Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet...
Works
- "Case History: Melancholia", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- "The Daily Racing Form", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- "On the Other Side of the Poem", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- 12 views of Freetown, 1 view of Bumbuna, (Half Moon Bay Press), 2003.