Benjamin Saltman

Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and completed his graduate education at Claremont Graduate School. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. He received several awards and fellowships including two NEA awards, and a Creative Writing Fellowship for 1987 and 1988. He won a John Williams Andrews Award for a long narrative poem from Poet Lore, a Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and an Anna Rosenberg Award for a poem about the Jewish experience. His work appeared...See more

Benjamin Saltman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and completed his graduate education at Claremont Graduate School. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965. He received several awards and fellowships including two NEA awards, and a Creative Writing Fellowship for 1987 and 1988. He won a John Williams Andrews Award for a long narrative poem from Poet Lore, a Chester H. Jones Foundation Award, and an Anna Rosenberg Award for a poem about the Jewish experience. His work appeared in numerous magazines over the years, among them the Hudson Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Ironwood and Kayak . For twenty-five years he taught verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge, where he was emeritus professor of English. He died in 1999. See less