Joseph Stroud Explained

Joseph Stroud
Birth Place:	Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	University of San Francisco University of California, Los Angeles San Francisco State University

Joseph Stroud (born 1943, Glendale, California) is an American poet.^[1]

Life

He was educated at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. He is currently retired from teaching at Cabrillo College.^[2]

He has published five collections of poetry, most recently Of This World; New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) and Country of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). His work earned a Pushcart Prize in 2000 and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award in 2005 and a year later was selected for a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.^{[3] [4]} His poetry articulates a voyage through places and times and voices, often sifting through the details of daily life, searching for miracles (“Inside the pear there’s a paradise we will never know, our only hint the sweetness of its taste.” - Comice, Below Cold Mountain).

He divides his time between his home in Santa Cruz, California, and a cabin in the Sierra Nevada.^[5]

Awards

• 2000 Pushcart Prize
• 2005 finalist for the Northern California Book Critics Award
• 2006 Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress.
• 2011 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.^[6]

Works

• Book: In the Sleep of Rivers . Capra Press. 1974. 978-0-912264-98-1 .
• Book: Signatures . BOA. 1982. 978-0-918526-38-0 .
• Book: Below Cold Mountain . Copper Canyon Press. 1998. 978-1-55659-084-9 .
• Book: Country of Light . Copper Canyon Press. 2004. 978-1-55659-205-8 .
• Book: Of This World: New and Selected Poems . Copper Canyon Press. 2008 . 978-1-55659-285-0 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&q=Joseph+Stroud+%28poet%29&pg=PA248. Missing; Hear that Phone Ringing? Sounds Like Long Distance; Manna. California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Dana Gioia . Chryss Yost . Jack Hicks. Heyday Books. 2004. 978-1-890771-72-0 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Uidu1Reua3sC&q=Joseph+Stroud+%28poet%29&pg=PA50. Bible. Patrice Vecchione. Illustrator Patrice Vecchione. Macmillan. 2007. 978-0-8050-8213-5 . Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems .

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Joseph Stroud",BOA Editions . Boaeditions.org . 2012-09-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120717004437/http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/stroud.html . 2012-07-17 .
2. Book: California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present. Dana Gioia . Chryss Yost . Jack Hicks. Heyday Books. 2004. 978-1-890771-72-0 .
3. Web site: Poet and the Poem Webcasts, Library of Congress . Loc.gov . 2012-09-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120830191154/http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem2.html . 2012-08-30 .
4. News: Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel. December 5, 2008. Joe Stroud recapitulates a life in poetry. Chris Watson. https://web.archive.org/web/20110611230815/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_11145401. 11 June 2011 .
5. http://www.gtweekly.com/20081231316744/a-e/poetry/this-murmuring-by-joseph-stroud "Joseph Stroud", Good Times Weekly, 31 December 2008
6. Web site: American Academy of Arts and Letters - Literature Awards Press Release . Artsandletters.org . 2011-03-22 . 2012-09-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130113091545/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2011literature.php . 2013-01-13 .