Stephen Sandy (1934-2016) earned his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied poetry with Robert Lowell and Archibald MacLeish. He was the author of 11 collections of poetry, including Man in the Open Air: Poems (1988), Thanksgiving over the Water (1992), The Thread: New and Selected Poems (1998), Black Box (1999), Surface Impressions (2002), Weathers Permitting (2005), and Overlook (2010). Sandy’s meditative and observant poems scrutinize the natural and human world. Sandy traveled to Japan on a Fulbright Visiting Lectureship and was honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Council on the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He translated ancient Greek poets, taught at Harvard University, Brown University, and for many years at Bennington College, and was the poet featured in the documentary The Biologist, the Poet and the Funeral Director (2007, directed by Harvey Edwards).
Portrait by Star Black
