Sidney Goldfarb



Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942, in Peabody, Massachusetts, died March 29, 2023, in Colorado) was a Harvard College- educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975, serving as its first director. He was the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1968), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1970), a Goethe Foundation Grant (1984), and multiple grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Books

 * Speech, for Instance (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
 * Messages (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971
 * Curve in the Road (poetry), Halty-Ferguson, 1980
 * The Rushes of Tulsa and Other Plays (poetic theater), Barrytown-Station Hill, 2008

Plays
(Dates indicate first production)


 * Pedro Páramo (adapted from the novel by Juan Rulfo), 1979
 * Huerfano, 1980
 * Tristan: A Retelling, 1983
 * Hot Lunch Apostles, 1983
 * The Transposed Heads (adapted with Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann, with music by Elliot Goldenthal), 1984
 * Big Mouth, 1985
 * Orange Grove, 1988
 * Music Rescue Service, 1991
 * The Rushes of Tulsa, 1999
 * Bad Women, 2000