Sandra Stone
{{short description|American poet}}
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| name = Sandra Peters
| birth_name = Alessandria Stone
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|04|04}}
| birth_place = Portland, Oregon, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|02|27|1934|04|04}}
| death_place = Portland, Oregon, US
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| pseudonym = Sandra Stone
Sunny Peters
| nationality = American
| occupation = Author, visual artist
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| notableworks = Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Cafe, "Snow Whippets"
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| awards = Dana Award (2007)
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Sandra Stone (April 4, 1934 – February 27, 2018){{cite news |url=http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=sandra-stone--sunny-peters&pid=188387354 |title=Sandra Peters Obituary |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=March 7, 2019}} was an Oregon-based visual and conceptual artist as well as a poet, playwright and author of literary fiction and nonfiction.
Life
Sandra Stone was born Alessandria Stone on April 4, 1934, in Portland, Oregon.{{cite web |url=http://orjewishlife.com/sandra-stone-living-and-writing-poetry/ |title=Sandra Stone: Living and Writing Poetry |date=January 2, 2015 |work=Oregon Jewish Life}} She married Mel Peters in 1956 and changed her name to Sandra Peters. The couple had three children prior to their divorce. She had use Sandra Stone as her professional name.
Sandra Stone has received more than 35 commissions from major architectural firms to create art for both public interiors and the landscape. She describes her work as "creating metaphor for space through architectural concepts, context, and literary text."
She was awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Literary Arts Inc. In 2007 her writing won the Dana Award in Poetry.http://www.danaawards.com/previous%20winners.htm {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} In 2000 her 24-word letter was chosen from among 7,500 entries as the winner of a one-time national competition sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan and the US Postal Service. Her 1997 collection of poetry, Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Café, was selected as the winner of a national manuscript competition. In 1998 Stone's book won the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.literary-arts.org/awards/past_poetry.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004015658/http://www.literary-arts.org/awards/past_poetry.php |archive-date=2006-10-04 |url-status=dead|title=OBA Past Winners - Poetry|accessdate=2015-01-12}}
Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Republic, International Poetry Review, JAMA, The Midwest Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Southwest Review,{{cite journal|title=Calyx|journal=Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women|date=1998|volume=18|publisher=Calyx, Incorporated|issn=0147-1627|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9FZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-01-12}} and elsewhere.
She had lived in Portland, Oregon,{{cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/sandra_stone_1|title=Sandra Stone | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers|date=29 January 1996 |publisher=pw.org|accessdate=2015-01-12}} and sometimes in New York City. She died in Portland, Oregon, on February 27, 2018, at the age 83.)
Awards
- 2015 Oregon Book Award Finalist: Absurdist or, Is It? [:] Angus L. Bowmer Award
- 2014 Artist's Repertory Theater: Awarded 501-C3 status for 3 inter-related comic operas
- 2013 Oregon Book Award Finalist: The Inmost House [:] Memory Making Journeying Dwelling
- 2013 Omnidawn Publishing Featured Poet: Two Treaties on Ecstasy + Creative Bio
- 2012 Winner: Hunger Mountain: Philosophic Lyric
- 2011 [http://pages.slc.edu/~raymond/corner/ Campbell Corner Philosophic Lyric]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 2010 [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2010/award_2/ Lucille Medwick Award]
- 2007 Dana Award
- 1998 Literary Arts Book Award for Poetry
- 1997 General Services Administration National Design Award for literary narrative in the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
- 1993 Winner: University of Washington Press: National Broadside Competition
Books
- A Sum of Whirligigs [:] Poems of World Pain
- The Inmost House [:] Memory Making Journeying Dwelling
- {{cite book|title=Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Cafe|publisher=Cleveland State University Press|year=1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXibmKXj4qwC|isbn=9781880834268|accessdate=2015-01-12}}
Plays
- What Everything Is
- POoF
- An Imperfect Place to Dispose of Flies
- Yes, Out
Composers
- John Vergin
- Theresa Koon
Librettist
- Sandra Stone
Poems
- [http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2010/award_2/ "Snow Whippets," PSA Lucille Medwick Award]
- [http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/poem-feature-sandra-stone/.html "The Sadness of Penmanship", Omnidawn Poetry Feature]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [http://www.nursingcenter.com/Library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=664576 "For a Friend Who Decided Early to Stop Dialysis", JAMA]
- [https://archive.today/20001207060400/http://www.poetrysociety.org/motion/mapsite/pimpoems/portland/portland.html "Taking A Piece Of Paper To The Bodyshop For Advice", Poetry in Motion]
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Aspects of Robinson Homage to Weldon Kees|editor1=Christopher Buckley |editor2=Christopher Howell| publisher = The Backwaters Press|
year=2011 }}
- {{cite book| title=Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined, with Directions for Five Self-Guided Explorations| editor=Sharon Wood Wortman and Joseph Boquiren| publisher=Urban Adventure Press| year=2007| url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Walking-Bridges-Using-Poetry-as-a-COMPASS/Sharon-Wood-Wortman/e/9780978736538| isbn=978-0-9787365-3-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets| editor=David Biespiel| publisher=Oregon State University Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-87071-098-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=Portland Lights: A Poetry Anthology|editor=Barbara LaMorticella and Steve Nemirow| publisher=Nine Lights Press| year=2000| url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Portland-Lights/Barbara-LaMorticella/e/9780967206004| isbn=0-9672060-0-6 }}
- Aspects of Robinson
References
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External links
- [http://nyebeachwritersseries.blogspot.com/2008/11/walking-bridges.html "Welcome to the Nye Beach Writers Series Past Presenter's Archive", Writers on the Edge]
- [http://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/poem-feature-sandra-stone/ "Poetry Feature: Sandra Stone"]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170919063606/http://sandrastone.com/ "Sandra Stone's personal website"]
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