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Dr. Alan L. Steinberg (1944 - 2023) was an American author.
He wrote the libretto for the opera The Falcon and the Sailor Boy, which was composed by Paul Siskind. The opera was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006 and starred Steinberg's former rhetoric student Stephanie Blythe. [1] [2]
Steinberg earned a B.A. in English from the University of Hartford in 1965 and an M.A. in English from Washington State University in 1967. He taught writing and literature courses at Wenatchee Community College in central Washington for five years. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in English in 1975, submitting a collection of original poems entitled Ceremonies as his dissertation.
Steinberg was a Professor in SUNY Potsdam's English department, where he also served as the coordinator of the writing program. [3] He taught courses in rhetoric and writing, creative writing, and professional writing. He was well-known among master's students for his course on the Western film and novel genres. Steinberg previously taught at Paul Smith's College, [4] Marist College and Idaho State University.
Steinberg wrote of his own travels and teaching: "I was born and raised in New York City, then lived and taught for a number of years in the mountains of Idaho and Washington, and now have learned to love the North Country [New York] as a place of rugged beauty and challenge. I teach a variety of writing and literature courses, all with the aim of helping students appreciate the beauty and power of a story well-told whether that story is found in the Old Testament, in the Odyssey, in Shane, or in the students' next assignment." [5]
Steinberg published his first full-length stage play, The Road to Corinth, with Players Press in 1984. His debut collection of short fiction, Divided (Aegina Press), appeared in 1996, followed the next year by his novel about an introspective circus “freak,” Cry of the Leopard (St. Martin's Press). His second collection of poetry, fathering (Sarasota Poetry Theater Press), was published in 2000. Throughout his career, Steinberg also published essays, stories, poems, and dramatic pieces in more than fifty venues, garnering numerous regional and national prizes for them. His work appeared in these journals, among many others: Bellevue Literary Review, Blueline Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, Louisville Review, Poem, William & Mary Review, Wisconsin Review. [6]
Steinberg was the librettist, with composer Paul Siskind, of the opera The Sailor-Boy and the Falcon, which premiered in 2006 at SUNY Potsdam.
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism.
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.
Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music.
Michael Dana Gioia is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist.
Donald Rodney Justice was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
Stephanie Blythe is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active international career in operas and concerts since the early 1990s. She is particularly associated with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, with whom she has performed annually since her debut with the company in 1995. In 2014 she starred as Gertrude Stein in the world premiere of 27, an opera composed by Ricky Ian Gordon with libretto by Royce Vavrek, and commissioned for her by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
Maurice Frank Kenny was an American poet who identified as Mohawk descent.
Michael Steven Harper was an American poet and English professor at Brown University, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. His poetry was influenced by jazz and history.
Ernest Hilbert is an American poet, critic, opera librettist, and editor.
Heather McHugh is an American poet notable for the independent ranges of her aesthetic as a poet, and for her working devotion to teaching and translating literature.
William Hobart Dickey was an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University. He wrote 15 books of poetry over a career that lasted over 30 years.
Mary Caroline Richards was an American poet, potter, and writer best known for her book Centering: in Pottery, Poetry and the Person. Educated at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and at the University of California at Berkeley, she taught English at the Central Washington College of Education and the University of Chicago, but in 1945 became a faculty member of the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina where she continued to teach until the end of the summer session in 1951.
Richard Wakefield is an American poet, literary critic, and a Professor of Humanities. He is the author of three collections of poetry, as well as hundreds of articles published both in print and online. He has taught at the University of Washington Tacoma, and The Evergreen State College. He currently teaches at Tacoma Community College.
Kevin Brown is an American poet, author and teacher. He has published three full collections of poems--Liturgical Calendar: Poems; A Lexicon of Lost Words; and Exit Lines, as well as a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again. He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, InsideHigherEd, The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica Magazine. He has published a work of scholarship--They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels—as well as critical articles on Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Tony Earley, and what English majors do after graduation. He regularly writes reviews for NewPages.com, solrad, and Soapberry Review.
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Paul Lindholdt is an American academic. Originally from Seattle, he teaches at Eastern Washington University. He has won a Washington State Book Award for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Academy of American Poets.
John Haag (1926-2008) was an American poet and university professor. Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, he spent seven years on the high seas, serving in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and the United States Navy during the Korean War.
Siskind is a German-Jewish surname meaning "sweet child", thought to have originated during the early nineteenth century period when German officials assigned surnames to Jews. People having this surname include:
Beth Singer Bentley was an American poet. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received her BA and MFA in creative writing and English from the University of Michigan, where her fiction won the Hopwood Award while still a graduate student. She settled in Seattle and was married to poet Nelson Bentley, a professor at the University of Washington, from 1952 until his death in 1990.
Jose Luis Torres-Padilla, also known by his pen name J. L. Torres, is a Puerto Rican and American fiction writer, poet, literary scholar, critic and editor. He was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico and grew up in the South Bronx. His work focuses on diasporic Puerto Rican literature and culture. He is married and has two sons.
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