Carolyne Wright Explained

Carolyne Wright (born in 1949, in Bellingham, Washington)^[1] is an American poet.

Life

She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees.^[2]

She has held visiting creative writing posts at Radcliffe College, Sweet Briar College, Emory University, University of Wyoming, University of Miami, Oklahoma State University, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, The College of Wooster,^[3] and Cleveland State University.

She is translation editor of Artful Dodge.^[4] Her work appeared in AGNI,^[5] Artful Dodge, Hotel Amerika, Hunger Mountain, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, North American Review, Poetry, Poets & Writers, Southern Review.

From 2004 to 2008, she served on the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Since 2005, she teaches at the Whidbey Writers Workshop.^[6] In 2008, she is Thornton Poet in Residence at Lynchburg College,^[7] and Distinguished Northwest Poet at Seattle University. She lives in Seattle.^[8]

Awards

• Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center
• Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
• Yaddo Fellowship
• Fulbright Study Grant in Chile, during the presidency of Salvador Allende
• Indo-U.S. Subcommission and Fulbright Senior Research fellowships in Calcutta and Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Witter Bynner Foundation Grant, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
• NEA Fellowship in Translation, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship, for A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
• Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, for A Change of Maps
• 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry, for A Change of Maps
• Blue Lynx Prize
• Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry
• 2001 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
• PEN/Jerard Fund Award and the Crossing Boundaries Award from International Quarterly for The Road to Isla Negra

Works

• Masquerade (Lost Horse Press, 2021)
• A Change of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006)
• Book: Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire . Lynx House Press. 2000. 978-0-89924-106-7 . (2nd edition 2005)
• Book: Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest . Hardin-Simmons University Press. 1983. 978-0-910075-02-2 . (AWP Award Series)
• Book: Stealing the Children . Dale K. Boyer. Ahsahta Press. 1978. 978-0-916272-09-8 ., an invitational chapbook
• Book: Carolyne Wright: Greatest Hits 1975-2001. Pudding House Publications. 2002. 978-1-58998-085-3 .
• A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer's Life (Ashland Poetry Press)

Anthologies

• Book: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women . registration . White Pine Press. 2008. Carolyne Wright . 9781893996939 .
• A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=TQeqArdkd-MC&q=Carolyne+Wright&pg=PT175. This dream the world is having about itself.... The Best American Poetry 2009. David Wagoner . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 2009. 978-0-7432-9976-3 .

Memoir

• The Road to Isla Negra

Translations

• "House", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009
• "Mysteries of Memory", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009
• Book: Another spring, darkness: selected poems of Anuradha Mahapatra. Anuradha Mahapatra. Carolyne Wright . Paramita Banerjee . Jyotirmoy Datta. CALYX Books. 1996. 978-0-934971-51-5 .
• Book: In order to talk with the dead: selected poems of Jorge Teillier. Jorge Teillier. Carolyne Wright. University of Texas Press. 1993. 978-0-292-73867-6 .
• Book: Light up at midnight: selected poems. Tasalimā Nāsarina. Carolyne Wright. Biddyaprakash. 1992 .
• Book: Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: a bilingual anthology. registration. Carolyne Wright.. Stephen Tapscott. University of Texas Press. 1996. 978-0-292-78140-5 .

Notes and References

1. Book: The Best American Poetry 2009 . 9781439166260 . 2020-07-10. Wagoner . David . Lehman . David . 22 September 2009 . Simon and Schuster .
2. Web site: American Book Award-Winning Poet Carolyne Wright Reads on WSUI April 25 - University News Service - the University of Iowa . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720090404/http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2005/april/041405wright.html . 2011-07-20 . dead .
3. Web site: Carolyn Wright.
4. Web site: Artful Dodge Editors . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090619124119/http://wooster.edu/artfuldodge/editors/editors.htm . 2009-06-19 . dead .
5. Web site: AGNI Online: Author Carolyne Wright . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091227113442/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carolyne-Wright.html . 2009-12-27 . dead .
6. Web site: Whidbey Island Writers Association - Conference Home Page . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091008180706/http://writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/genrepoe.html . 2009-10-08 . dead .
7. Web site: Lynchburg College: Falling in love with poetry . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100528163019/http://www.lynchburg.edu/x11902.xml . 2010-05-28 . dead .
8. Web site: Carolyne Wright. 21 May 2004 .