Stephen Sandy

Stephen Sandy (1934-2016) received one of eight 2006 Academy Awards in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He published numerous books of poetry, including The Thread: New and Selected Poems (1998), Surface Impressions, A Poem in Eight Parts (2002), Weathers Permitting (2005), and Overlook (2010). He taught at Harvard, Brown, Bennington, and the University of Tokyo. He held a Rockefeller Foundation residency at its Bellagio Center in 2001.