Sidney Goldfarb is a Harvard College

Harvard College

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-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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 in 1975, serving as its first director. He continues to teach there today. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

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 Fellowship (1968), a National Endowment for the Arts

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 grant (1970), a Goethe Foundation Grant (1984), and multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts

New York State Council on the Arts

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Books

• Speech, for Instance (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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  , 1969
• Messages (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
• Curve in the Road (poetry), Halty-Ferguson, 1980
• The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays (poetic theater), Barrytown-Station Hill, 2008

Plays

(Dates indicate first production)

• Pedro Páramo (adapted from the novel by Juan Rulfo), 1979
• Huerfano, 1980
• Tristan: A Retelling, 1983
• Hot Lunch Apostles, 1983
• The Transposed Heads (adapted with Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...
  
   from the novel by Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
  
  , with music by Elliot Goldenthal
  Elliot Goldenthal
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  ), 1984
• Big Mouth, 1985
• Orange Grove, 1988
• Music Rescue Service, 1991
• The Rushes of Tulsa, 1999
• Bad Women, 2000

External links

• Sidney Goldfarb profile, University of Colorado at Boulder retrieved 8th Dec 2010
• The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays page, Barrytown/Station Hill Press