SKP Bio 2013

SHERMAN K. POULTNEY WRITER’S BIO ’13                   <poultney2@gmail.com>

Sherman K. Poultney is a native New Englander who now resides in North Carolina. He has published his poems, short stories, and plays in various media and has had public readings of his plays with the Fairchester Playwrights. He has attended summer poetry workshops at Sarah Lawrence College and the Frost Place in New Hampshire. He has recently led monthly Poetry Workshop for the Wilton Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society using a structured approach taught to him by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. His latest play, “On My Mouth the Taste is Sour”, is about the final days of the Vietnam War stateside. It was workshopped at the Sarah Lawrence 2006 Summer Playwriting Workshop. He continues to publish annual chapbooks of poems and now has 15 volumes. He has won prizes for poems in Massachusetts National Poetry Day Contests, the Brodine Contest of the CT Poetry Society, and in CT Writers' League Contests. His poems have appeared in the 2000 Anthology, “Heartbeat of New England” (Tiger Moon Press), in “Breath of Parted Lips II” (CavanKerry Press) 2004, in “Long River Run II” (CT Poetry Society) 2003 to 2012, Off the Coast, Caduceus, and in “First Tuesday in Wilton” (Stairwell), 2005. He has published photos in Off the Coast. He has a PhD degree in physics from Princeton University, taught at University of Maryland and Fairfield University, and consults with high-tech companies.   

His plays include:

                Eleanor of Aquitaine

                The Second Morning After (Mid-Summer Night's Dream)

                Going Gentle into That Good Night

                He Who Must Die - One Act

                At My Time - One Act

                I Can Top That  -  10 min.

                The Concert  - 10 min.

                The Quintessential Frenchman  -  10 min.

                How I Caught the Woodchuck  - One Act

                Santa Claus Fails to Deliver - 10 min.

                FIRE – 3 min

                Tree Surgeon Prunes a Slippery Elm – 3 min

                A Lawyer Gets Decked – 4 min

His short story publications include:

                A Greek Diptych

                Odysseus Returned: A Tragedy (in Calvert Review)

                Finding Lost Times No. 23: Johnson's Farm (in Calvert Review)

                The Humane House

                The Waiter

                My Little Chickadee

                Out of Place

His chapbooks published by Hale Publishers of Ridgefield, Ct include:

                The Seasons Transcended  1989
               The Seasons Transcended II   1990
               The World: Not Mine to Keep   1992
               The World Transcended   1992
                A Greek Diptych (Short Story)   1995
                Male and Female: Not Mine to Keep   1995
                Male and Female Transcended   1996
                To Steal the Moon   1997
                Sometimes You Have to Go Home   1998
                Eleanor of Aquitaine (Play)   1999
                Mr. Ergo Sum Re-Lives Past States of Being   2000
                Cleaning House   2002
                New Moon over China   2002
                Times Fingers   2005
                No Safe Haven   2006
                Memorial Day in Leominster   2007

His Blog sites are:

                Poetry   http://spoultney.blogspot.com/

                Drama   http://skpoultney.blogspot.com/

                Short Story  http://skppoultney.blogspot.com/