Adam Sol

Adam Sol is a Canadian-American poet.

Life

Adam Sol was born in New York and raised in New Fairfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Tufts University, from Indiana University with an M.F.A, and from the University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.[1] He lives in Toronto[2] with his wife Rabbi Yael Splansky and their three sons.

Sol was a judge for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.[3]

Awards

• 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
• 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Shortlist

Works

• Jonah's promise: poems. Mid-List Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-922811-47-2.
• Crowd of Sounds. Anansi. 2003. ISBN 978-0-88784-688-5.
• Jeremiah, Ohio. House of Anansi Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-88784-791-2.
• Complicity. McClelland & Stewart. 2014. ISBN 978077107927-6.

Non-fiction

• How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry. ECW Press. 2019. ISBN 9781770414563.
• Balancing acts: the re-invention of ethnicity in Jewish American fiction before 1930. University of Cincinnati. 2000.

References

1. http://www.anansi.ca/authors.cfm?author_id=137%5B%5D
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Judges for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Announced". 19 August 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.

External links

• Publisher's page on Adam Sol at Anansi.ca
• "Adam Sol: A conversation ending with a poem", Lemon Hound, April 07, 2009
• "Ten Questions (Trillium Finalists Series) with Adam Sol", Open Book Toronto
• "Adam Sol", Northern Poetry Review, Dani Couture, September 2008
• "The NaPoMo Questionnaire: Adam Sol", The NationalPost, April 14, 2009