Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1985 for her book, Yin.
Carolyn Kizer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carolyn Ashley Kizer December 10, 1925 Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | October 9, 2014 (aged 88) Sonoma, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English, Chinese, Urdu |
| Alma mater | |
| Period | 1961–2001 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize |
| Spouse | Charles Stimson Bullitt (1946–1954, divorced) John Marshall Woodbridge |
| Children | 3 |
Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington. She wrote poetry as a child. When she was 17, The New Yorker printed one of her poems.[1]
She got a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1945. Then she studied Chinese at Columbia University. From 1946 to 1954, she married and had three children.[1] In the mid-1950s, at the University of Washington, two of her teachers were poets Theodore Roethke and Stanley Kunitz.[2] Roethke told her she should be a poet.[1]
In 1964, she went to Pakistan for the US State Department. As a "Specialist in Literature," she taught at a number of schools there.[2][3]
In addition to the Pulitzer, Kizer won the Frost Medal, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. She was a chancellor (leader) of the Academy of American Poets.[2]
She died in Sonoma, California in 2014.[1]
Books
- The Ungrateful Garden (1961)
- Knock Upon Silence (1965)
- Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems (1971)
- Mermaids in the basement: poems for women (1984)
- Yin (1984)
- The Nearness of You (1986)
- Carrying Over: Translations from Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Hebrew and French-African (1986)
- Proses: Essays on Poets and Poetry (1993)
- Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose (1995)
- Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 (1996)
- Pro Femina: A Poem (2000)
- Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 (2001)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fox, Margalit (2014-10-11). "Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/arts/artsspecial/carolyn-kizer-pulitzer-winning-poet-dies-at-89.html. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Carolyn Kizer". Poetry Foundation. 2023-02-27. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ↑ "Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize winning poet". Internet Archive - New York State Writers Institute. 1999. Archived from the original on September 15, 2006. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
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