Hugh Seidman (1940 – November 9, 2023) was an American poet.

Life

Seidman was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1940.^[1] He was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of New York University,^[2] where he studied under Louis Zukofsky.^[3] His first book of poetry was published when Stanley Kunitz selected it as the winner of the 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.^[3]

Seidman taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, The New School.^[4]

His work appeared in The Brooklyn Rail,^[5] Harper's,^[6] The Paris Review,^[7] Virginia Quarterly Review.^[8]

Seidman died on November 9, 2023 after a long illness.^[1]

Awards

• 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) for SOMEBODY STAND UP AND SING
• 2003, 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant ^[9]
• 1990 Camden Poetry Award (Walt Whitman Center for the Arts)
• 1985, 1972, 1970 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• 1971 New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant
• 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Selected bibliography

• "Case History: Melancholia", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
• "The Daily Racing Form", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
• "On the Other Side of the Poem", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
• Collecting Evidence. Yale University Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-300-01322-1.
• People Live, They Have Lives. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-1-881163-03-9.
• Selected Poems: 1965-1995. Miami University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-881163-10-7.
• Throne, Falcon, Eye: Poems. Unmuzzled Ox Press. ISBN 978-0-934450-53-9.
• Blood Lord. Doubleday. 1974. ISBN 978-0-385-08172-6.
• 12 views of Freetown, 1 view of Bumbuna, (Half Moon Bay Press), 2003.
• Somebody stand up and sing. New Issues, Western Michigan University. 2005. ISBN 978-1-930974-53-1.

Anthologies

• Robert Creeley; David Lehman, eds. (2002). The Best American poetry. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-7432-0385-2.
• Julia Kasdorf; Michael Tyrell, eds. (2007). "Yes, Yes, Like Us". Broken land: poems of Brooklyn. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4803-9.

Criticism

• Seidman, Hugh (November 8, 1981). "POEMS AND EXCITEMENT". The New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2010.