Saul Bennett

Bio

(1936-2006) Poet. Bennett came to poetry after a career in Manhattan. He began writing poems following the sudden death of his daughter from a brain aneurysm in 1994. His first poetry collection, “New Fields and Other Stones: On a Child’s Death,” was selected in 1998 to launch a new publishing imprint, Archer Books, and received the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award. Bennett’s second collection, “Harpo Marx at Prayer,” was nominated by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize. He lived in Woodstock, New York.