Soldofsky, Alan D.
Professor, English
Director, Creative Writing , Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
E-mail
alan.soldofsky@sjsu.edu
Additional Contact Information
Phone Number(s)
(408) 924-4432
Office Hours
M, T, W, 2:30 - 3:45 PM ; Th PM by appoint.
Alan Soldofsky directs the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, and is the coordinator of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing. His field is contemporary poetry and poetics. As a poet, critic, and literary programs organizer, he has been active in the Bay Area poetry community since 1973.
Courses
Education
- Master of Fine Arts.
Univ Of Iowa, 1972
Bio
Alan Soldofsky has published three chapbooks of poems: Kenora Station, Staying Home, and most recently a chapbook that includes a selection of poems by his son, the poet Adam Soldofsky, Holding Adam / My Father's Books. His new book of poems, In the Buddha Factory, will be published in Fall 2013 by Truman State University Press. He has published poems widely in magazines and academic journals including: The Antioch Review, The Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Grand Street, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Nation, The North American Review, and Poetry East. His poems have three times been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has also contributed essays on modern and contemporary poets to a variety of journals. His articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews have appeared widely in periodicals including Chelsea, Narrative, Poetry Flash, Quarry West, and The Writer's Chronicle. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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