Carolyn Creedon
American poet
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Carolyn Creedon (born 1969) Newport News, Virginia is an American poet.
Carolyn Creedon | |
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Reading at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, 2014 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Smith College, University of Virginia |
Life
She left college and worked as a waitress in San Francisco.[1] She graduated from Smith College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A.[2]
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review,[3] Yale Review.
She wrote a letter in support of the Green Street Cafe.[4]
She is married to Paul Andrews. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Awards
- 2008 Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Contest runner-up [5]
- 2005 Glascock poetry prize
- Academy of American Poets prize [6]
Works
- Wet: Poems, Kent State University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781606351505 [7]
Anthologies
- Lehman, David, ed. (2 April 1998). "litany". The Best of the Best American Poetry: 1988-1997. Simon and Schuster. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-4391-0606-8.
- Esselman, Mary; Vélez, Elizabeth, eds. (21 December 2008). "The Nectarine Poem; Pub Poem". Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free. Grand Central Publishing. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-446-55534-0.
- The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997. Scribner. 1998. ISBN 978-0-684-84279-0.
- Esselman, Mary D.; Elizabeth Ash Vélez, eds. (2002). "False Hope". The hell with love: poems to mend a broken heart. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-67854-4.
- Mary Esselman, Elizabeth Velez, eds. You Drive Me Crazy: Love Poems for Real Life Hachette Digital, Inc., 2008, ISBN 9780446554831
- "for the woman painter, because things grow"; "dear god i"; "bonepsalm", serve
- "How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment", Rattle #32, Winter 2009
Ploughshares
- "Michelle". Ploughshares. Spring 2009. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009.
- "Doris". Ploughshares. Spring 2009. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009.
