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Sheila Black

American poet

Sheila Black

American poet

Black at the 2017 Texas Book Festival.

Sheila Black, an American poet, has written over 40 books for children and young adults as well as four poetry collections. She was a 2000: U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize, and a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship.

Life

She graduated from Barnard College and received her master's degree from the University of Montana. . Teaching part-time at New Mexico State University and also working as Development Director for the Colonias Development Council, Sheila Black continues to write poetry, recently becoming co-editor of Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen. Sheila Black was diagnosed with XLH, commonly referred to as Vitamin-D Resistant Rickets, at a young age. Black continues to advocate for equal rights for persons with disabilities. She has three children and lives with her husband in Texas.

Style

Confessional poetry

In her poems, Sheila Black writes in a confessional style, often referencing past conflicts that resulted from her diagnosis of XLH, such as in her poem What You Mourn. According to Sheila Black,

Reviews

  • On Love/Iraq:

  • On House of Bone:

Selected works

Poetry collections

  • House of Bone. CW Press. Poems.; Wordtech Communications, 2007,
  • Love/Iraq. CW Press. Poems.; WordTech Communications, 2009,
  • Wen Kroy,, Dream Horse Press, 2014,
  • Iron/Ardent, Educe Press, 2017,
  • Radium Dream, Salmon Poetry, 2022,

Poetry collections, collaborative

  • Continental Drift, with Michelle Marcoux. Patriothall, Edinburgh, UK. Poems, Paintings.

Poetry collections, co-editor

  • . Poems.

Children's books

  • My Very Own Tooth Fairy Pillow, Random House Children's Books, 1990,
  • Patrick the Pup, Andrews and McMeel/Ariel Books, 1996,
  • Will the Real Ms. X Please Report to the Principal!, Troll, 1998,
  • Me and Maya, the super brain, McGraw-Hill School Division, 2000,
  • Lassie (1994), Puffin High Flyer, Troll,

References

References

  1. "Poet Laureate Chooses L.S. Asekoff and Sheila Black for Witter Bynner Award and Reading, April 5".
  2. "Sheila Black, Blackbird".
  3. "Home".
  4. "Wordgathering: Black".
  5. Black, Sheila. "Waiting to Be Dangerous: Disability and Confessionalism." ''Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability.'' Ed. Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, & Michael Northen. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2011. pp. 208. Print.
  6. "The Title Says It All". Vastano, Joe E. Book Review. Web. https://www.amazon.com/Love-Iraq-Sheila-Black/dp/193499975X
  7. ''Love/Iraq''. Front Porch Journal. Book Review. Web. http://www.frontporchjournal.com/170_review_black.asp
  8. "Black Review". Wordgathering. Book Review. Web. http://www.wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue3/book_review/blackreview.html
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