Sandra Simonds
Sandra Simonds is an American poet and critic. The author of seven books of poetry, her poems have been included in Best American Poetry and have appeared in literary journals including Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Boston Review, and Fence. In 2013, she won a Readers’ Choice Award for her sonnet “Red Wand.”[1] Her poetry reviews have been featured on the Poetry Foundation Website, the New York Times, the Harvard Review and the Kenyon Review.
Simonds earned her Ph.D. in English and Poetry from Florida State University.[2] She lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is an associate professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.[3]
Honors and awards
- Akron Poetry Prize, 2015
- Best American Poetry 2015
- Best American Poetry 2014
- Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition Prize 2012
Books
- Atopia (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) ISBN 0-8195-7904-1
- Orlando (Wave Books, 2018) ISBN 1-9406-9660-7
- Further Problems with Pleasure (University of Akron Press, 2017) ISBN 1-6292-2057-4
- Steal It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2015) ISBN 0-9915-4549-4
- The Sonnets (Bloof Books, 2014)
- Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012) ISBN 1-8808-3496-0
- Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009) ISBN 0-6152-5623-6
Criticism
- A Poet Whose Calling Is Doubt Celebrates Language’s Uncertainty. Review of Heather McHugh, June, 2020.
- In *Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings. Review of Four Poets. May, 2020.
- Review of Ariana Reines's A Sand Book. Jan, 2020.
- Riot Girl: Chelsey Minnis’s Unladylike Poetry. April, 2019.
References
- "Sandra Simonds". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- "Sandra Simonds, Guest Blogger". Best American Poetry. Best American Poetry. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- "An Interview with Sandra Simonds". University of Arizona Poetry Center. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
Further reading
- Turner, Lindsey. "Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds's "Orlando"" Los Angeles Review of Books, Dec 3 2018.[1]
External links
- April. The New Yorker, 2019
- I Love Wine. The New York Times, 2017
- "Poetry is Stupid and I Want to Die" American Poetry Review, 2017
- "Red Wand" Academy of American Poets website, 2013
- "Lines Written on Nursery Wall" Poetry, 2010
- Poetry Foundation website
- Academy of American Poets website
- "Impossible Epic: On Sandra Simonds's "Orlando"". Los Angeles Review of Books.
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