Benjamin Saltman

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Benjamin Saltman
Benjamin Saltman
Benjamin Saltman
Born7 September 1927
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died9 January 1999
Kensington, California
OccupationPoet, professor

Benjamin Saltman (September 7, 1927 – January 9, 1999) was an American poet and Professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge.[1][2] The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is given annually by Red Hen Press in his honor.[3]

Biography[]

Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952 and an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1959. In 1967 he received a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School where he wrote his doctoral thesis "The Descent to God: Religious Language in Several Contemporary American Poets". He was married to Helen Saltman, has three children and six grandchildren.[4]

Career[]

Saltman was the recipient of two literature fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1969 and 1987.[5] He provided editorial assistance for the Swami Prabhavananda in "The Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta".[6] In 1992, after retiring, he volunteered to teach at California State University Northridge for free after state budget cuts caused the school to cancel 1,000 courses previously scheduled for the fall semester.[7][8][9]

Bibliography[]

  • Blue with Blue (1968)
  • The Leaves, The People (1974)
  • Elegies of Place (1976)
  • Deck (1979)
  • Five Poems (1989)
  • The Book of Moss (1992)
  • The Sun Takes Us Away (1996)
  • Sleep and Death, the Dream (1999)

The Book of Moss (extended edition - 2016) Alone With Everyone: the Uncollected Poems of Benjamin Saltman (2017) California Beige and Other Writings (2018) A Termite Memoir (2018)

References and notes[]

  1. ^ Red Hen Press Author Bio Archived 2011-02-02 at the Wayback Machine redhen.org. Retrieved on 2009-07-13
  2. ^ CSUN List of Deceased Faculty csun.edu. Retrieved on 2010-07-15
  3. ^ Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award Archived August 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine pw.org. Retrieved on 2009-07-13
  4. ^ The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, 2005 Claremont University Consortium
  5. ^ NEA Literature Fellowships Archived 2009-11-19 at WebCite, Page 43. Retrieved on 2009-07-13.
  6. ^ Swami Prabhavananda, The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta (Allen & Unwin, 1964), Page 6.
  7. ^ "Sorry, You Can't Teach for Free", Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug 1992.
  8. ^ "Professors' Volunteer Offer Rejected", Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug 1992.
  9. ^ "New Law Allows Retiring CSUN Professors to Teach for Free", Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1992.

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