Sean Singer

Poet

Ossining, NY
New York US
Email: 
sean.singer@gmail.com
Website: 
www.seansingerpoetry.com
Twitter/X: 
@SeanSingerPoet

Author's Bio

Sean Singer’s first book Discography won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His second book, Honey & Smoke, was published with Eyewear in 2015. Hi third book, Today in the Taxi is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. He has also published two chapbooks, Passport and Keep Right On Playing Through the Mirror Over the Water, both with Beard of Bees Press and is the recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He edits people's manuscripts at https://www.seansingerpoetry.com/editori...

Education: 
Washington University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Fishouse Poets Anthology (Persea, 2009)
,
Music’s Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets) (Random House, 2009)
,
Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
,
Jazz Poems (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets) (Random House, 2006)
Books:
Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015)
,
Discography (Yale University Press, 2002)
Chapbooks:
Keep Right On Playing Through The Mirror Over The Water (Beard of Bees, 2010)
,
Passport (Beard of Bees, 2007)
Prizes won: 

Yale Series of Younger Poets

NEA Fellowship

Norma Farber First Book Award

Academy of American Poets Prize

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Franz Kafka, Danilo Kis, Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Kosinski

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Guadalajara, JAL
Mexico
Jalisco
Raised in: 
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Last update: Sep 18, 2020