Discipline: Literature

Stephen Tapscott

Discipline: Literature
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
Stephen Tapscott is a poet whose fields of interest include poetry as a literary genre, creative writing (poetry, experimental prose), and translation. His academic interests include North American writing (especially Walt Whitman, Anglo-American Modernists, writers since WWII), Latin American poetry, world poetries in Russian, German, and Polish; autobiography; gender studies and queer studies; photography and other visual arts. He’s published five books of poems and a book of criticism (on Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams). In recent years he’s edited an anthology of Latin American Poetry, and translated books by Pablo Neruda (One Hundred Love Sonnets), Jan Twardowski (God Asks for Love), Wislawa Szymborska (The End and the Beginning), Gabriela Mistral (Selected Prose and Prose Poems), Attila Boa, and Georg Trakl.

Studios

Sorosis

Stephen Tapscott worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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