Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942 in
Peabody, Massachusetts
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) is a
Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the
University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to teach there today. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
Fellowship (1968), a
National Endowment for the Arts grant (1970), a Goethe Foundation Grant (1984), and multiple grants from the
New York State Council on the Arts.
Books
*''Speech, for Instance'' (poetry),
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
*''Messages'' (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
*''Curve in the Road'' (poetry), Halty-Ferguson, 1980
*''The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays'' (poetic theater), Barrytown-Station Hill, 2008
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Plays
(Dates indicate first production)
*''Pedro Páramo'' (adapted from the novel by Juan Rulfo), 1979
*''Huerfano'', 1980
*''Tristan: A Retelling'', 1983
*''Hot Lunch Apostles'', 1983
*''The Transposed Heads'' (adapted with Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann, with music by Elliot Goldenthal), 1984
*''Big Mouth'', 1985
*''Orange Grove'', 1988
*''Music Rescue Service'', 1991
*''The Rushes of Tulsa'', 1999
*''Bad Women'', 2000
Footnotes
External links
''The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays'' page, Barrytown/Station Hill Press
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University of Colorado faculty
1942 births
Harvard College alumni
American male poets
Living people
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews