Sandra Hochman is an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, novelist, and documentary film

Documentary film

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maker.

Life

She graduated from Bennington College

Bennington College

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 in 1957 and studied at the Sorbonne

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She was poet-in-residence at Fordham University

Fordham University

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, and City College of New York

City College of New York

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In 1959, she married Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis

Ivry Gitlis

Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...

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In 1966 she married Harvey Leve, lawyer for the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong. They had a daughter, Ariel, in 1968 and divorced in 1970.

Her work appeared in The New Yorker.
She was a columnist for Harpers Bazaar.
Created her own foundation, "You're an Artist Too" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry and song writing to children ages 7–12. She ran this program for 15 years.
She lives in an Upper East Side Manhattan

Manhattan

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 apartment.

Awards

• 1963 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
  Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
  The 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...
  
  
• 1963 Nominated for Pulitzer Prize
• 1975 1st Metropolitan Museum Award of Merit

Poetry

• Voyage Home: Poems. Paris: Two Cities, 1960.
• Manhattan Pastures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. Yale Series of Younger Poets, v. 59.
• The Vaudeville Marriage: Poems. New York: Viking, 1966.
• Love Poems: Ch’ing Shih. Hong Kong: I Lin Wen Chu Yin Shua, 1966. 100 copies.
• Love Letters from Asia: Poems. New York: Viking, 1968.
• Earthworks: Poems 1960-1970. New York: Viking, 1970; London: Secker & Warburg, 1972. ISBN 9780436199202
• Futures: New Poems. New York: Viking, 1974.

Novels

• Walking Papers. New York: Viking, 1971.
• The Magic Convention. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
• Happiness Is Too Much Trouble: A Novel. New York: Putnam, 1976.
• Endangered Species: A Novel. New York: Putnam, 1977. ISBN 9780380423668
• Jogging: A Love Story. New York: Putnam, 1979.
• Playing Tahoe: A Novel. New York: Wyndham Books, 1981. ISBN 9780671253585

Non-fiction

Plays Performed in Workshops

The Clown Woman (music by Galt MacDermot)

Walking Papers (music by Gary William Friedman)

The Sandancer (music by Galt MacDermot)

Vaudeville Jive (music by Gary William Friedman)

Explosion of Loneliness (music by Galt MacDermot)

The Whore and the Poet (music by MacDermot, Friedman & Green)

Custody (music my Marsha Singer)

Watercolor Girl (music by Marsha Singer)

Elvis Unbound (music by Rob Stoner)

Rubirosa (music by Gary Kupper)

Timmy the Great (music by Gary Kupper)

The Secrets of Mrs. Shakespeare (music by MacDermot & Friedman)

External links

• "Savion Glover to Direct New Musical Timmy the Great in NYC Industry Reading", Playbill, Kenneth Jones, 14 Jul 2004