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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.

Work

Sol published his first book of poems, Jonah's Promise in 2000, but it wasn't until his second collection, Crowd of Sounds, that his career took off. Crowd of Sounds won the Trillium Prize for Poetry in 2004.

Publishing his third collection, Jeremiah Ohio, in 2008. Complicity found popularity through the Poetry in Voice contest. In which, Sol's poem "Opus 75, Sestina in B-flat for the Glockenspiel" is often read. Brittany Huellas-Bruskiewicz's rendition won the contest in 2018.

Next Sol put his teaching skills to work through his popular poetry blog "How a Poem Moves." In which, he breaks down the poetic works of other writers and directs and explains their meaning in a way more easily digestible to a less experienced reader of poems. The best of this blog was later compiled into a 2019 book, recommended by CBC.

Sol's most recent book, Broken Dawn Blessings, brings a personal touch to his writing. Writing from an autobiographical perspective, as a husband helping his wife through cancer.

Sol also has an extensive professorial career, teaching at such institutions as Laurentian University, York University, and currently at the University of Toronto's Victoria College.

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. House of Anansi Press. 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.
• Broken Dawn Blessings: Poems. ECW Press. 2021. ISBN 978177041606-2.

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

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^{[permanent dead link]}

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