366. Sally Van Doren
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An American poet and artist, Sally Van Doren is the author of four poetry collections,\\xa0Sibilance, (LSU Press 2023)\\xa0Promise, (2017)\\xa0Possessive, (2012) and\\xa0Sex at Noon Taxes\\xa0(2008) which received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have been featured by NPR, PBS, The Poetry Foundation, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared widely in national and international publications such as\\xa0American Letters and Commentary,\\xa0American Poet,\\xa0Barrow Street,\\xa0Boulevard,\\xa0Cincinnati Review,\\xa0Colorado Review,\\xa0Crazyhorse,\\xa0december,\\xa0Lumina,\\xa0The Moth,\\xa0The New Republic,\\xa0Poetry Ireland Review,\\xa0Poetry London,\\xa0Southern Review,\\xa0Southwest Review,\\xa0Verse Daily\\xa0and\\xa0Western Humanities Review. Her ongoing poetic memoir,\\xa0The Sense Series, served as the text for a multi-media installation at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. ------
As a practicing visual artist, Van Doren formalized her training at Hunter College and The School of Visual Arts in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Furnace Art on Paper Archive and other venues and participates in group shows regularly. Her work is held in distinguished private and corporate collections, including a print commission for each guest room for the Hotel Downstreet in North Adams, MA.\\xa0 Her art appears on the cover of\\xa0The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems\\xa0(UPenn Press 2022) and in literary magazines such as\\xa0The Nashville Review\\xa0and\\xa02River. ------
A graduate of Princeton University (BA) and University of Missouri-St. Louis (MFA), Van Doren has taught poetry workshops for a variety of educational institutions, among them the 92nd Street Y, the St. Louis Public Schools, Washington University in St. Louis, the St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center and Scoville Memorial Library. She curated the Sunday Poetry Workshops for the St. Louis Poetry Center and serves on the board of the Five Points Center for the Visual Arts in Torrington, CT. A native St. Louisan, she works from her studio in West Cornwall, CT. -------