Tony Sanders

Tony Sanders earned his BA from Yale University, MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and PhD from the University of Houston. His collections of poetry include Partial Eclipse (1994), which won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry; Transit Authority (2000); and the book-length poem Immolation Row (2014). He collaborated with the poet Chard deNiord on a book of prose poems, Speaking in Turn (2011). Sanders’s work was published widely in the Paris Review, Poetry, andthe Yale Review, among other places, and was nominated for ten Pushcart Prizes. Richard Howard praised him for the “pervasive steadiness of [his] diction” and noted that Sanders has “a syntactic resonance quite his own yet gratefully beholden to such exacting masters as Stevens and Ashbery.” Tony Sanders lived in New York City until his death in 2015.