Carolyne Wright
{{short description|American poet (born 1949)}}
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Carolyne Wright (born in 1949, in Bellingham, Washington){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQeqArdkd-MC&pg=PA196 |title=The Best American Poetry 2009 |isbn=9781439166260 |access-date=2020-07-10|last1=Wagoner |first1=David |last2=Lehman |first2=David |date=22 September 2009 |publisher=Simon and Schuster }} is an American poet.
Life
She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees.{{Cite web |url=http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2005/april/041405wright.html |title=American Book Award-Winning Poet Carolyne Wright Reads on WSUI April 25 - University News Service - the University of Iowa |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720090404/http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2005/april/041405wright.html |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }}
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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanmiguelpoetry.com/cwright.html|title = Carolyn Wright}} and Cleveland State University.
She is translation editor of Artful Dodge.{{Cite web |url=http://www3.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/editors/editors.htm |title=Artful Dodge Editors |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619124119/http://wooster.edu/artfuldodge/editors/editors.htm |archive-date=2009-06-19 |url-status=dead }} Her work appeared in AGNI,{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carolyne-Wright.html |title=AGNI Online: Author Carolyne Wright |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227113442/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/C/Carolyne-Wright.html |archive-date=2009-12-27 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/genrepoe.html |title=Whidbey Island Writers Association - Conference Home Page |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008180706/http://writeonwhidbey.org/Conference/genrepoe.html |archive-date=2009-10-08 |url-status=dead }}
In 2008, she is Thornton Poet in Residence at Lynchburg College,{{Cite web |url=http://www.lynchburg.edu/x11902.xml |title=Lynchburg College: Falling in love with poetry |access-date=2009-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528163019/http://www.lynchburg.edu/x11902.xml |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }} and Distinguished Northwest Poet at Seattle University.
She lives in Seattle.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/carolyne_wright_2|title = Carolyne Wright| date=21 May 2004 }}
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)
- {{cite book| title=Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire |publisher=Lynx House Press| year= 2000| isbn=978-0-89924-106-7 }} (2nd edition 2005)
- {{cite book| title=Premonitions of an Uneasy Guest | publisher=Hardin-Simmons University Press| year= 1983| isbn= 978-0-910075-02-2 }} (AWP Award Series)
- {{cite book| title=Stealing the Children |editor=Dale K. Boyer| publisher=Ahsahta Press| year= 1978| isbn= 978-0-916272-09-8 }}, an invitational chapbook
- {{cite book| title=Carolyne Wright: Greatest Hits 1975-2001| publisher=Pudding House Publications| year= 2002| isbn= 978-1-58998-085-3 }}
- A Choice of Fidelities: Lectures and Readings from a Writer's Life (Ashland Poetry Press)
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women | url=https://archive.org/details/majesticnightslo00 | url-access=registration | publisher=White Pine Press| year= 2008|translator= Carolyne Wright | isbn=9781893996939 }}
- A Bouquet of Roses on the Burning Ground
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQeqArdkd-MC&q=Carolyne+Wright&pg=PT175| chapter=This dream the world is having about itself...| title=The Best American Poetry 2009|editor1=David Wagoner |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-7432-9976-3 }}
=Memoir=
- The Road to Isla Negra
=Translations=
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n2/poetry/wright_c/house_page.shtml "House", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009]
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n2/poetry/wright_c/mysteries_page.shtml "Mysteries of Memory", NABANEETA DEV SEN, Blackbird, Fall 2009]
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0xJlkssqpgC&q=Carolyne+Wright| title=Another spring, darkness: selected poems of Anuradha Mahapatra| author=Anuradha Mahapatra|translator= Carolyne Wright |translator2=Paramita Banerjee |translator3=Jyotirmoy Datta| publisher=CALYX Books| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-934971-51-5 }}
- {{cite book| title=In order to talk with the dead: selected poems of Jorge Teillier| author=Jorge Teillier|translator= Carolyne Wright| publisher=University of Texas Press| year= 1993| isbn=978-0-292-73867-6 }}
- {{cite book| title=Light up at midnight: selected poems| author=Tasalimā Nāsarina|translator= Carolyne Wright| publisher=Biddyaprakash| year= 1992 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00step| url-access=registration| quote=Carolyne Wright.| title=Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: a bilingual anthology| editor=Stephen Tapscott| publisher=University of Texas Press| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-292-78140-5 }}
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