Discipline: Literature – poetry

Deborah Tall

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Ithaca, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 2004
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Tall
Deborah Anne Tall (1951–2006) was an American writer and poet. From 1982 until 2006, she was a professor of literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited The Seneca Review. She is the author of four books of poetry and three works of nonfiction and co-edited the anthology, The Poet's Notebook, with David Weiss and Stephen Kuusisto. Her most recent book of poems, Summons (Sarabande Books), was chosen by Charles Simic to receive the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and was worked on at MacDowell. Her memoir, A Family of Strangers, chronicles her search for her father's missing relatives and her struggle to uncover the past her parents have tried to forget.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Deborah Tall worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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