Adam Sol
{{short description|Canadian-American poet}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Adam Sol
|birth_place=New York City, U.S.
|occupation=Poet
|nationality=Canadian-American
|education=Tufts University
Indiana University Bloomington (MFA)
University of Cincinnati (PhD)
|spouse=Rabbi Yael Splansky
|children=3
}}
Adam Sol is a Canadian-American poet.
Life
Adam Sol was born in 1969 in New York and raised in New Fairfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Tufts University, from Indiana University Bloomington with an M.F.A, and from the University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.{{cite web |url=http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=137 |title=House of Anansi Press : Authors |website=www.anansi.ca |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030401135135/http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=137 |archive-date=1 April 2003 |url-status=dead}} He lives in Toronto{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.ca/Linktext/direct/sol.htm |title=Who's |accessdate=2009-10-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008134601/http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/sol.htm |archivedate=2009-10-08 }} with his wife, Rabbi Yael Splansky.
Work
Sol's first book, Jonah's Promise, won the First Series Book Award from MidList Press and was published in 2000. His second collection, Crowd of Sounds, was published by House of Anansi Press and won the Trillium Award for Poetry in 2004. His third collection, Jeremiah Ohio, was published by House of Anansi Press in 2008. His fourth, Complicity, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2014.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/235418/complicity-by-adam-sol/9780771079276
Sol's poetry blog "How a Poem Moves" became the [https://ecwpress.com/products/how-a-poem-moves How a Poem Moves] a book in 2019, recommended by the CBC.https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-aug-31-2019-1.5151183/poetry-should-be-enjoyed-and-adam-sol-wrote-a-book-to-show-you-how-1.5151918>
Sol's most recent book, Broken Dawn Blessings, was the 2022 winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry.{{Cite web | title=Canadian Jewish Literary Awards | url=https://cjlawards.ca | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004021010/http://www.cjlawards.ca:80/ | access-date=2024-12-25 | archive-date=2015-10-04}}
Sol currently holds the Blake C. Goldring Chair at the University of Toronto's Victoria College.{{cite web | url=https://vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/victoria-college-fellows-and-associates/sol/ | title=Prof. Adam Sol » Victoria College }}
Awards
- 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
- 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Shortlist
- 2022 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry
- 2023 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature for Poetry
Works
=Poetry=
- {{cite book| title=Jonah's promise: poems| publisher=Mid-List Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-922811-47-2}}
- {{cite book| title=Crowd of Sounds| url=https://archive.org/details/crowdofsounds0000sola| url-access=registration| publisher=House of Anansi Press| year=2003| isbn=978-0-88784-688-5}}
- {{cite book| title=Jeremiah, Ohio| publisher=House of Anansi Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-88784-791-2}}
- {{cite book| title=Complicity| publisher=McClelland & Stewart| year=2014| isbn=978077107927-6}}
- {{cite book| title=Broken Dawn Blessings: Poems| url=https://ecwpress.com/products/broken-dawn-blessings| publisher=ECW Press| year=2021| isbn=978177041606-2}}
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book| title=How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry| publisher=ECW Press| year=2019 | isbn=9781770414563}}
- {{cite book| title=Balancing acts: the re-invention of ethnicity in Jewish American fiction before 1930| publisher=University of Cincinnati| year=2000}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708051253/http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/04/adam-sol-conversation-ending-with-poem.html "Adam Sol: A conversation ending with a poem", Lemon Hound, April 07, 2009]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720142449/http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/ten_questions_with_adam_sol "Ten Questions (Trillium Finalists Series) with Adam Sol", Open Book Toronto]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100114011754/http://northernpoetryreview.com/interviews/dani-couture/adam-sol.html "Adam Sol", Northern Poetry Review, Dani Couture, September 2008]
- [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/04/14/the-napomo-questionnaire-adam-sol.aspx "The NaPoMo Questionnaire: Adam Sol", The NationalPost, April 14, 2009]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
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Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:Tufts University alumni
Category:Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Category:University of Cincinnati alumni
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Toronto Scarborough
Category:Academic staff of Laurentian University