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
University of California Davis
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library holds a collection of his writings.
Biography
He earned a BA from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the Flagship university, flagship campus of the Univer ...
.
He took part in the Los Angeles to Houston
Freedom Ride.
Bibliography
Poetry
* ''Wandering'' (1977)
* ''The Confounding'' (1980)
* ''Chasing the Cranes'' with
Dale Pendell
Dale Pendell (April 14, 1947 – 13 January 2018) was an American poet, ethnobotanist, and novelist. Writing in an evocative style all his own, he fused science, folklore, and poetry in describing the relationship between psychoactive plants and hu ...
(1986)
* ''American Zen: by a guy who tried it'' (1994)
* ''No Other Business Here: a Haiku Correspondence'' with
John Brandi (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
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