Stanley Nelson - Poet - Brooklyn, NY

Poetry: Recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Award. Poems appearing in over 50 publications, including Triquarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kansas Quarterly, The Smith, Confrontation and Turnstile.

Poems in several dozen anthologies, the most recent being Beyond Lament (Northwestern University Press).

Immigrant, an epic poem in four volumes, has been hailed as "One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century" (Hugh Fox, Asylum) and "the richest, and most diversely focused, most personal and liturgical, of any American poem dealing with a limited American territory." (Donald Phelps, Small Press Review).

Fiction: Stories and novel excerpts in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Phoenix Rising, X-1, Pulpsmith, Ice River and For Now. A book of experimental fiction, The Unknowable Light of the Alien, received a Small Press Book of the Year award from Library Journal and was favorably reviewed in National Review.

Plays: Recipient of a Drama Guild grant. Over 100 productions in New York, London and college and community theaters throughout the US.

Poe:From his Life and Mind, a full-length play, was cited in Best Plays of 1971 and was given a national college tour by the New York Touring Company.

The Master Psychoanalyst, another full-length play, was produced Off-Broadway at the Wonderhorse and received favorable notices in The New York Daily News and the Village Voice.

Editor of The Scene, an anthology of plays from Off-Off Broadway.