SKP Bio 2014

SHERMAN K. POULTNEY WRITER’S BIO ’14                   <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 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 17 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 2011, Off the Coast, Caduceus, The Road Not Taken (2014), 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

            Hold-up at the ATM Machine  - (10min)

            Dumkopfheiser’s French Restaurant…-…(10min)

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

            A Bit Part Surprise

            The Catman

His essay publications include:

            But What Does the Poem Mean?

            What Uniquely Means Human?

 

 

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

             Ringmaster of the Circus Parade..2013

His Blog sites are:

            Poetry   http://spoultney.blogspot.com/

 

            Drama   http://skpoultney.blogspot.com/

 

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

            Photos (USA)    http://skppics.blogspot.com/

            Photos (Foreign)    http://skppicss.blogspot.com/

            Sketches... http://skpsketch.blogspot.com/