Steven Sanfield (born August 3, 1937 – January 28, 2015) was an American poet, children's book author, and

Freedom Rider Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions '' Morgan v. Virginia ...

. He published over 30 books during his lifetime. The

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library holds a collection of his writings.

Biography

He earned a BA from the

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. He took part in the Los Angeles to Houston Freedom Ride.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Wandering'' (1977) * ''The Confounding'' (1980) * ''Chasing the Cranes'' with Dale Pendell (1986) * ''American Zen: by a guy who tried it'' (1994) * ''No Other Business Here: a Haiku Correspondence'' with

John Brandi John Brandi (born , Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and artist. San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman has said of Brandi: He has been an open roader for much of his life and like his two great forebears, Whitman and Neruda, has ...

(1999) * ''The Rain Begins Below: Selected Slightly Longer Poems 1961-2005'' (2005) * ''The Right Place: 77 at 77'' (2014) * ''Clouds Come and Go'' (2015)

Children's books

* ''Adventures of High John the Conqueror'' (1988) * ''Snow'' (1995) * ''Bit by Bit'' (1995) * ''The Great Turtle Drive'' (1996), illustrated by Dirk Zimmer * ''Just Rewards'' (1996), illustrated by Emily Lisker

References

External links

Haiku by Steve Sanfield
1937 births 2015 deaths English-language haiku poets American male writers Freedom Riders University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni {{US-writer-stub