Sandy McIntosh is an American poet, editor, memoirist, software developer, and teacher.
Early life and education
McIntosh was born in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the Waldorf School until seventh grade, when he was enrolled at the
New York Military Academy
New York Military Academy (NYMA) is a college preparatory, co-ed boarding school in the rural town of Cornwall, north of New York City, and one of the oldest military schools in the United States. Originally a boys' school, it started admitting ...
, from which he graduated, at the suggestion of
Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real estate developer and businessman. A member of the Trump family, he was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
In partnership w ...
, a business acquaintance of McIntosh's father. Trump's son Donald was told to help the younger McIntosh navigate school. McIntosh, an underclassman, was enrolled because his father felt he needed to get rid of "all that spiritual nonsense" of his Waldorf School education. McIntosh has written and been interviewed extensively about how the New York Military Academy's culture of hazing formed
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
's behavior.
He received a BA from
Southampton College, L.I.U., an MFA from
The School of the Arts, Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the
Union Institute & University
Union Institute & University (UI&U) is a private university in Cincinnati, Ohio. It specializes in limited residence and distance learning programs. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and operates satellite campuses ...
. While at Southampton College, McIntosh participated in informal apprenticeships with the poet
David Ignatow
David Ignatow (February 7, 1914 – November 17, 1997) was an American poet and editor.
Life
David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. He died on November 17, 1997, at his ...
and the poet, novelist and translator H.R. Hays.
Career
A poet, memoirist
and writer known for wry reconsideration of the familiar, his work has appeared in The ''New York Times'',
''The Daily Beast'', the ''New York Daily News'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''American Book Review'', ''Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics'', in print, and in online journals.
His interviews include
Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate (born 1943) is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.
Early life
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BA degr ...
, and
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting with '' The Teachings of Don Juan'' in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that purport to describe training in shamanism that he received under the ...
scholar and Native American Activist, Jay Courtney Fikes.
McIntosh headed up the H.R. Hays Distinguished Poets series at
Guild Hall
A guildhall, also known as a "guild hall" or "guild house", is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Great Britain and the Low Countries. These buildings commonly become town halls and in som ...
from 1980 to 2000.
His original poetry in a screenplay won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. His collaboration with
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet.
Background
Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been ...
, ''237 More Reasons to Have Sex'', appears in
The Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
.
In the early 1980s, he edited ''Wok Talk'', a Chinese cooking periodical published by Newsletter Publishing Associates and created an early computer software recipe program, ''The Best of Wok Talk''.
Martin Yan
Martin Yan (; born 22 December 1948) is a Hong Kong chef and food writer. He has hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show ''Yan Can Cook'' since 1982.
Early years and education
With ancestral roots in Taishan, Yan was born in Guangzhou, ...
wrote frequently for the publication. McIntosh took a job with
The Software Toolworks
The Software Toolworks (commonly abbreviated as Toolworks) was an American software and video game developer based in Novato, California. The company was founded by Walt Bilofsky in 1980 out of his Sherman Oaks, California, Sherman Oaks garage, ...
, which had published his cooking program, where he helped develop the best-selling program ''
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!''. His work included writing 750 typing lessons and an extensive user's guide.
From 1990-2000 he was Managing Editor of ''
Confrontation
Confrontation is an element of conflict wherein parties confront one another, directly engaging one another in the course of a dispute between them. A confrontation can be at any scale, between any number of people, between entire nations or cult ...
'', a literary magazine published by
Long Island University
Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...
; and a former literature and creative writing professor at Hofstra University and Long Island University. Since 2001, he has served as Managing Editor and Publisher of
Marsh Hawk Press
Marsh Hawk Press, is a self-sustaining American independent, non-profit, literary press run by publisher Sandy McIntosh in East Rockaway, New York.
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Marsh Hawk Press was founded by Jane Augustine, Thomas Fink, Burt Kimmelman, Sandy M ...
.
Selected bibliography
Memoir
* ''Plan B: A Poet's Survivors Manual,''Chapter One Series, Marsh Hawk Press; May 1, 2022;
* ''Lesser Lights: More Tales From a Hampton's Apprenticeship,'' Marsh Hawk Press; February 1, 2019;
* ''A Hole In the Ocean: A Hamptons' Apprenticeship'', Marsh Hawk Press, 2016,
*
''The year Trump went astray: A former New York Military Academy classmate on the emergence of a self-promoter''New York Daily News, August 14, 2020
*
''How Young Donald Trump Was Slapped and Punched Until He Made His Bed'' New York Daily News, August 11, 2017
*
''I Showered With Donald Trump at Military School'' the Daily Beast, April 13, 2017
*
''What Would Donald Trump Do To The White House?'' Long Island Press, August 5, 2016
*
''For Artists and Poets, the East End Is No Dead End—Just Another ‘Hole in the Ocean’'' Long Island Press, February 8, 2016
*
''Culture of Hazing: Donald Trump, Me, & The End Of New York Military Academy'' Long Island Press, October 5, 2015
*
New York Times, November 30, 1997
Poetry
* ''Obsessional, Poetry for Performance'', Marsh Hawk Press, 2017
* ''Cemetery Chess, Selected and New Poems'' Marsh Hawk Press, 2012
* ''Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco'', Marsh Hawk Press, 2010
* ''237 More Reasons to Have Sex'' (written with Denise Duhamel), Otoliths, 2008
* ''Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death'', Marsh Hawk Press, 2007
* ''The After-Death History of My Mother'', Marsh Hawk Press, 2005,
* ''Between Earth and Sky''. Marsh Hawk Press, 2002, ,
* ''Endless Staircase'', Street Press, 1991,
* ''Monsters of the Antipodes'', Survivors Manual Books, 1980
* ''Which Way to the Egress?,'' Garfield Publishers, 1974
* ''Earthworks'', Southampton College, Long Island University, 1970
Non-fiction
* ''Firing Back: Power Strategies for Cutting the Best Deal When You're About to Lose Your Job,'' with Jodie-Beth Galos, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
* ''The Poets in the Poets-in-the-Schools Minnesota Center for Social Research'', University of Minnesota, 1980
* ''Confrontation Thirtieth Anniversary Anthology'', with Martin Tucker, 1998
Cooking
* ''From A Chinese Kitchen'', The American Cooking Guild, 1985,
Editing and translating
* ''The Selected Poems of H.R. Hays,'' Xlibris Corporation, 2000,
* ''Selected Gosho Passages of Nichiren Daishonin (modern English renderings)'', Nichiren Shoshu: Commemorative Committee, 2015
* ''Basic Terminology of Nichiren Shoshu (modern English renderings)'', Nichiren Shoshu: Publication Department, 2009
* ''On Becoming a Poet: Chapter One series,'' Marsh Hawk Press, 2022 ]
Awards and prizes
* Selection:
The Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
, ''237 More Reasons to Have Sex'' (collaboration with Denise Duhamel)
* Silver Medal: Film Festival of the Americas, script award for ''Ireland: The People and the Caring''
* Fellowship: The John Steinbeck Memorial Library Studio, Southampton College
References
External links
Amazon.com: Sandy McIntosh, author's page* Biography:
Contemporary Authors
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vols. 45-48,
Gale (publisher)
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The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Gro ...
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Gale Cengage*
Trump, le Parrain de Manhattan, Trump; Trump, the Godfather of Manhattan'' directed by
Frédéric Mitterrand
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, France 3, 2018
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