Joseph Stroud
{{short description|American poet (born 1943)}}
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{{infobox writer
|name=Joseph Stroud
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1943}}
|birth_place=Glendale, California, U.S.
|occupation=Poet
|alma_mater=University of San Francisco
University of California, Los Angeles
San Francisco State University
}}
Joseph Stroud (born 1943, Glendale, California) is an American poet.{{cite web |url=http://boaeditions.org/authors/stroud.html |title="Joseph Stroud",BOA Editions |publisher=Boaeditions.org |accessdate=2012-09-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717004437/http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/stroud.html |archivedate=2012-07-17 }}
Life
He was educated at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. He is currently retired from teaching at Cabrillo College.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&q=Joseph+Stroud+%28poet%29&pg=PA248| title=California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present|editor1=Dana Gioia |editor2=Chryss Yost |editor3=Jack Hicks| publisher=Heyday Books| year= 2004| isbn=978-1-890771-72-0 }}
He has published five collections of poetry, most recently Of This World; New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). His work earned a Pushcart Prize in 2000 and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award in 2005 and a year later was selected for a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html |title=Poet and the Poem Webcasts, Library of Congress |publisher=Loc.gov |accessdate=2012-09-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830191154/http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html |archivedate=2012-08-30 }}{{cite news| work=Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel| date=December 5, 2008|url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11145401|title=Joe Stroud recapitulates a life in poetry| author=Chris Watson|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611230815/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11145401|archivedate=11 June 2011 }} His poetry articulates a voyage through places and times and voices, often sifting through the details of daily life, searching for miracles (“Inside the pear there’s a paradise we will never know, our only hint the sweetness of its taste.” - Comice, Below Cold Mountain).
He divides his time between his home in Santa Cruz, California, and a cabin in the Sierra Nevada.[http://www.gtweekly.com/20081231316744/a-e/poetry/this-murmuring-by-joseph-stroud "Joseph Stroud", Good Times Weekly, 31 December 2008 ] {{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Awards
- 2000 Pushcart Prize
- 2005 finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award
- 2006 Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.
- 2011 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.{{cite web |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2011literature.php |title=American Academy of Arts and Letters - Literature Awards Press Release |publisher=Artsandletters.org |date=2011-03-22 |accessdate=2012-09-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113091545/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2011literature.php |archivedate=2013-01-13 }}
Works
- {{Cite book| title=In the Sleep of Rivers | publisher=Capra Press| year= 1974| isbn= 978-0-912264-98-1 }}
- {{Cite book| title=Signatures | publisher=BOA| year= 1982| isbn=978-0-918526-38-0 }}
- {{Cite book| title=Below Cold Mountain | publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 1998| isbn= 978-1-55659-084-9 }}
- {{Cite book| title=Country of Light | publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 2004| isbn=978-1-55659-205-8 }}
- {{Cite book| title=Of This World: New and Selected Poems | publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 2008 | isbn=978-1-55659-285-0 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{Cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&q=Joseph+Stroud+%28poet%29&pg=PA248| chapter=Missing; Hear that Phone Ringing? Sounds Like Long Distance; Manna| title=California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present|editor1=Dana Gioia |editor2=Chryss Yost |editor3=Jack Hicks| publisher=Heyday Books| year= 2004| isbn=978-1-890771-72-0 }}
- {{Cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uidu1Reua3sC&q=Joseph+Stroud+%28poet%29&pg=PA50| chapter=Bible| editor=Patrice Vecchione| others=Illustrator Patrice Vecchione| publisher=Macmillan| year= 2007| isbn= 978-0-8050-8213-5 | title=Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems }}
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Category:University of San Francisco alumni
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:Writers from Glendale, California