Sidney Goldfarb

Sidney Goldfarb

Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942 in Peabody, Massachusetts) 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.^[1] He continues to teach there today. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation 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^[2]
• Messages (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971^[3]
• Curve in the Road (poetry), Halty-Ferguson, 1980^[4]
• The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays (poetic theater), Barrytown-Station Hill, 2008^[5]

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

1. University of Colorado at Boulder, Creative Writing Department
2. 1969 Speech, for Instance
3. 1971 Messages
4. 1980 Curve in the Road
5. 2008 The Rushes of Tulsa

External links

• The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays page, Barrytown/Station Hill Press