Ralph Sneeden grew up on Long Island and the North Shore of Massachusetts. His poems and essays have appeared most recently or are forthcoming in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The Common, Ecotone, Harvard Review, The Southampton Review, The Southeast Review, Southwest Review, and The Surfer's Journal. The manuscript for his second book, Barcarole (current title), has been selected as a finalist (in various forms) for the National Poetry Series, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Pleiades), the May Swenson Poetry Award (Utah State University Press), and the Cider Press Review Book Award. The title poem of his book, Evidence of the Journey (Harmon Blunt, 2007), received the Friends of Literature Prize from POETRY magazine, and others in it appeared in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Slate and other magazines. His work has also been anthologized in The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology Vol. 2 (edited by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa, University of Indiana Press); Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (forward by Maxine Kumin); and Poet Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets.
Ralph Sneeden
Studios
MacDowell
Ralph Sneeden worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…