Sandy McIntosh

Sandy McIntosh
Born
Rockville Centre, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationWaldorf School, New York Military Academy; BA, Southampton College, Long Island University; MFA, The School of the Arts, Columbia University; Ph.D., Union Institute & University
Occupations
  • Poet
  • memoirist
  • writer
  • publisher
  • software developer
Known forManaging editor and publisher, Marsh Hawk Press; poet, writer, Hampton's art colony memoirist, insights garnered from going to New York Military Academy with Donald Trump, writing software including "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing"
Websitehttp://sandymcintosh.info/

Sandy McIntosh is an American poet, editor, memoirist, software developer, and teacher.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

McIntosh was born in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the Waldorf School until seventh grade, when he was enrolled at the New York Military Academy, from which he graduated, at the suggestion of Fred Trump, a business acquaintance of McIntosh's father. Trump's son Donald was told to help the younger McIntosh navigate school. McIntosh, an underclassman, was enrolled because his father felt he needed to get rid of "all that spiritual nonsense" of his Waldorf School education.[2] McIntosh has written and been interviewed extensively about how the New York Military Academy's culture of hazing formed Donald Trump's behavior.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

He received a BA from Southampton College, L.I.U., an MFA from The School of the Arts, Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Union Institute & University. While at Southampton College, McIntosh participated in informal apprenticeships with the poet David Ignatow[15][16] and the poet, novelist and translator H.R. Hays.[17]

Career[edit]

A poet, memoirist[18][17][19] and writer known for wry reconsideration of the familiar,[20][21] his work has appeared in The New York Times,[22][15] The Daily Beast,[23] the New York Daily News,[24] The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review,[25] Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics,[26] in print, and in online journals.[27] His interviews include Phillip Lopate,[28] and Carlos Castaneda scholar and Native American Activist, Jay Courtney Fikes.[29]

McIntosh headed up the H.R. Hays Distinguished Poets series at Guild Hall from 1980 to 2000.[17][30] His original poetry in a screenplay won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. His collaboration with Denise Duhamel, 237 More Reasons to Have Sex, appears in The Best American Poetry.[31]

In the early 1980s, he edited Wok Talk, a Chinese cooking periodical published by Newsletter Publishing Associates and created an early computer software recipe program, The Best of Wok Talk.[32] Martin Yan wrote frequently for the publication.[33] McIntosh took a job with The Software Toolworks, which had published his cooking program, where he helped develop the best-selling program Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!.[34] His work included writing 750 typing lessons and an extensive user's guide.

From 1990-2000 he was Managing Editor of Confrontation, a literary magazine published by Long Island University; and a former literature and creative writing professor at Hofstra University and Long Island University.[35] Since 2001, he has served as Managing Editor and Publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.

Selected bibliography[edit]

Memoir[edit]

  • Plan B: A Poet's Survivors Manual,Chapter One Series, Marsh Hawk Press; May 1, 2022; ISBN 978-0-9969912-9-2
  • Lesser Lights: More Tales From a Hampton's Apprenticeship, Marsh Hawk Press; February 1, 2019; ISBN 978-0-9969911-3-1
  • A Hole In the Ocean: A Hamptons' Apprenticeship, Marsh Hawk Press, 2016, ISBN 0990666999
  • The year Trump went astray: A former New York Military Academy classmate on the emergence of a self-promoter New York Daily News, August 14, 2020
  • How Young Donald Trump Was Slapped and Punched Until He Made His Bed New York Daily News, August 11, 2017
  • I Showered With Donald Trump at Military School, the Daily Beast, April 13, 2017
  • What Would Donald Trump Do To The White House?, Long Island Press, August 5, 2016
  • For Artists and Poets, the East End Is No Dead End—Just Another ‘Hole in the Ocean’, Long Island Press, February 8, 2016
  • Culture of Hazing: Donald Trump, Me, & The End Of New York Military Academy, Long Island Press, October 5, 2015
  • Fond Memories of a Poet-Mentor, New York Times, November 30, 1997

Poetry[edit]

  • Obsessional, Poetry for Performance, Marsh Hawk Press, 2017 ISBN 098463536X
  • Cemetery Chess, Selected and New Poems Marsh Hawk Press, 2012 ISBN 0996427597
  • Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco, Marsh Hawk Press, 2010 ISBN 0984117717
  • 237 More Reasons to Have Sex (written with Denise Duhamel), Otoliths, 2008 ISBN 0980602505
  • Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death, Marsh Hawk Press, 2007 ISBN 0979241618
  • The After-Death History of My Mother, Marsh Hawk Press, 2005, ASIN B000VDI4XQ
  • Between Earth and Sky. Marsh Hawk Press, 2002, ASIN B001V78ZS0, ISBN 097133322X
  • Endless Staircase, Street Press, 1991, ISBN 0935252487
  • Monsters of the Antipodes, Survivors Manual Books, 1980
  • Which Way to the Egress?, Garfield Publishers, 1974
  • Earthworks, Southampton College, Long Island University, 1970

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Firing Back: Power Strategies for Cutting the Best Deal When You're About to Lose Your Job, with Jodie-Beth Galos, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 ISBN 0471180319
  • The Poets in the Poets-in-the-Schools Minnesota Center for Social Research, University of Minnesota, 1980
  • Confrontation Thirtieth Anniversary Anthology, with Martin Tucker, 1998 ISBN 0913057509

Cooking[edit]

  • From A Chinese Kitchen, The American Cooking Guild, 1985, ISBN 0942320204

Editing and translating[edit]

  • The Selected Poems of H.R. Hays, Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ASIN B0793SHQF8
  • Selected Gosho Passages of Nichiren Daishonin (modern English renderings), Nichiren Shoshu: Commemorative Committee, 2015
  • Basic Terminology of Nichiren Shoshu (modern English renderings), Nichiren Shoshu: Publication Department, 2009
  • On Becoming a Poet: Chapter One series, Marsh Hawk Press, 2022 {ISBN 978-1732614130}]

Awards and prizes[edit]

  • Selection: The Best American Poetry, 237 More Reasons to Have Sex (collaboration with Denise Duhamel) [31]
  • Silver Medal: Film Festival of the Americas, script award for Ireland: The People and the Caring
  • Fellowship: The John Steinbeck Memorial Library Studio, Southampton College[36]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Directory of Writers › Sandy McIntosh". pw.org. Poets & Writers Magazine. May 28, 1981. Archived from the original on March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  2. ^ McIntosh, Sandy (March 28, 2016). "I Showered With Donald Trump at Military School". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on March 19, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Jason M., Breslow. "The FRONTLINE Interview: Sandy McIntosh on going to school with President Trump". pbs.org. Frontline, PBS. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Garofalo, Michael (March 28, 2016). "What's it like to shower with Trump? A former classmate recalls Donald Trump's military school days". Salon Media Group. Archived from the original on March 9, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Kirk, Michael; Wiser, Mike. "President Trump". www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline. Frontline, PBS. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  6. ^ Kirk, Michael; Mike, Wiser. "The Choice 2016". www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline. Frontline, PBS. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  7. ^ "President Trump". pbs.org. Frontline, PBS. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  8. ^ "The Choice 2016". pbs.org. Forntline, PBS. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  9. ^ "REPLAY - Trump, le parrain de Manhattan (France 3) - Découvrez le vrai visage d'un président controversé, REPLAY - Trump, the godfather of Manhattan (France 3) - Discover the true face of a controversial president". Télé 7. September 10, 2018. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  10. ^ Kruse, Michael (November 5, 2017). "The mystery of Mary Trump". Politico, Europe. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  11. ^ Kruse, Michael (January 19, 2018). "Trump With the Sound Off". Politico. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  12. ^ Kruse, Michael (September 15, 2017). "The loneliest president". Politico. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  13. ^ Gettys, Travis (September 15, 2017). "When Trump Predicted He'd End His Life a 'Howard Hughes-Like Recluse'". AlterNet. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  14. ^ "LIU Alumnus Sandy McIntosh Pens Memoir About College Days in the Hamptons—and Talks About His Time in Military School with Donald Trump". Long Island University Alumni News. May 10, 2018. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  15. ^ a b McIntosh, Sandy (November 30, 1997). "Fond Memories of a Poet-Mentor". New York Times. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  16. ^ McIntosh, Sandy. "My Teacher Arguing with the Trees". Dan's Papers Literary Prize. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  17. ^ a b c Wells, Laura (June 2, 2016). "When the Lit Life Was Easy". The East Hampton Star. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  18. ^ Giancola, Dan (April 18, 2019). "Right Place Right Time". East Hampton Star. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  19. ^ Cudzilo, Brian (December 10, 2016). "Book Review: 'A Hole in the Ocean—A Hamptons' Apprenticeship' Sandy McIntosh". Dan's Papers. Archived from the original on December 11, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
  20. ^ Fink, Thomas. "Psychological Determinism and Navigable Interstices In Sandy McIntosh's Poetry". talismanmag.net/. Talisman House. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  21. ^ Tabios, Eileen (May 9, 2012). "Featured poet: Sandy McIntosh". galatearesurrection18.blogspot.com. Galatea Resurrects. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  22. ^ "On the Graves of the Montauks, Selected Works by Long Island Poets". No. Page LI7. NY Times. NY Times. January 1, 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  23. ^ McIntosh, Sandy (March 28, 2016). "I Showered With Donald Trump at Military School". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on March 19, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  24. ^ McIntosh, Sandy (August 11, 2017). "How young Donald Trump was slapped and punched until he made his bed". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  25. ^ McIntosh, Sandy. "The Border between Literature and Life". americanbookreview.org/. University of Houston-Victoria. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  26. ^ McIntosh, Sandy. "H.R. Hays: The Theater of Disappointment". talismanmag.net. Talisman House. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  27. ^ McIntosh, Sandy (November 30, 2015). "Last Poems by Harvey Shapiro and David Ignatow". galatearesurrects.blogspot.com. Galetea Resurrects. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  28. ^ Sandy McIntosh, Phillip Lopate. "The Poet Remains Alive in the Essayist: Phillip Lopate in Conversation". poets.org. Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  29. ^ McIntosh, Sandy. "An Interview with Jay Courtney Fikes". sustainedaction.org. Sustained Action. Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  30. ^ McIntosh, Sandy. "Remembering H.R. Hays". poetrybay.com. Poetrybay. Archived from the original on March 5, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  31. ^ a b Carlin, Patricia. "Patricia Carlin presents a poem by Denise Duhamel and Sandy McIntosh". blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/. The Best American Poetry. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  32. ^ Lubeck, Scott (November 1984). "Software: 'Twas the Night After Christmas". Texas Monthly: 244. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
  33. ^ Wok Talk (May/June 1985) Magazine (IX, Number 3) Magazine by Sandy McIntosh and Martin Yan. Retrieved February 8, 2018 – via amazon.com.
  34. ^ Biersdorfer, J. D. (December 31, 1998). "Next They'll Say Betty Crocker Isn't Real, Either". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  35. ^ Rumsey, Spencer (September 10, 2013). "Walt Whitman's Long Island Roots". Long Island Press. Archived from the original on October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  36. ^ Whitman, Alden (March 19, 1978). "Southampton Library Is Planning Comfortable Cubicles for Writers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.

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