Sidney Goldfarb

American poet

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Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942, in Peabody, Massachusetts, died March 29, 2023, in Colorado) was 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 was 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

^ University of Colorado at Boulder, Creative Writing Department Archived 2009-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ 1969 Speech, for Instance
^ 1971 Messages
^ 1980 Curve in the Road
^ 2008 The Rushes of Tulsa