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Carolyn Kizer

Biography Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of a socially prominent Spokane couple.

Her father, Benjamin Hamilton Kizer (1878–1978), who was 45 when she was born, was a successful attorney. Her mother, Mabel Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology who had received her doctorate from Stanford University.

Kizer was married to the architect-historian, John Marshall Woodbridge. When she was not teaching and lecturing, she divided her time between their home in Sonoma, California and their apartment in Paris.

Carolyn Kizer is the author of eight books of poetry including Cool Calm & Collected (2000), Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 (1996), The Nearness of You: Poems for Men (1986), and Yin (1984), which won a Pulitzer Prize. She is a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and she served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1966-1970.

Poetry

  • Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000. Copper Canyon Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55659-181-5.
  • Pro Femina: A Poem BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000, ISBN 9781886157309
  • Harping On: Poems 1985-1995, Copper Canyon Press, 1996, ISBN 9781556591150
  • The Nearness of You, Copper Canyon Press, 1986, ISBN 9780914742968
  • Yin, BOA Editions, 1984, ISBN 9780918526441 — Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Mermaids in the basement: poems for women, Copper Canyon Press, 1984, ISBN 9780914742807
  • Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems, Doubleday, 1971
    Knock Upon Silence, Doubleday, 1965
  • The Ungrateful Garden, 1961; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780887482762

Prose

  • Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose, Eastern Washington University Press, 1995, ISBN 9780910055253
  • Proses: Essays on Poets and Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 1993, ISBN 9781556590450

Translations

  • Carrying Over: Translations from Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Hebrew and French-African (Copper Canyon Press, 1986)

As editor

  • 100 Great Poems by Women HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 9780880015813
  • The Essential Clare (1992)

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1985), for Yin
  • Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988)
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters award
  • Award of Honor of the San Francisco Arts Commission
  • Borestone Award (six times)
  • Pushcart Prize (three times)
  • Frost Medal
  • John Masefield Memorial Award
  • Governor's Award for the best book of the year, State of Washington (1965, 1985)

A Widow in Wintertime

Carolyn Kizer

Where I’ve Been All My Life

Carolyn Kizer

What the Bones Know

Carolyn Kizer

The Tourist Park

Carolyn Kizer

The Valley of the Fallen

Carolyn Kizer

The Ungrateful Garden

Carolyn Kizer

To a Visiting Poet in a College Dormitory

Carolyn Kizer

Thwarted

Carolyn Kizer

Through a Glass Eye, Lightly

Carolyn Kizer

Thrall

Carolyn Kizer

Summer near the River

Carolyn Kizer

Semele Recycled

Carolyn Kizer

Pro Femina

Carolyn Kizer

Poem for Your Birthday

Carolyn Kizer

Plaint of the Poet in an Ignorant Age

Carolyn Kizer

Pearl

Carolyn Kizer

October 1973

Carolyn Kizer

Not Writing Poems about Children

Carolyn Kizer

A Muse of Water

Carolyn Kizer

Medicine

Carolyn Kizer

Love Song

Carolyn Kizer

Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve

Carolyn Kizer

The Intruder

Carolyn Kizer

Ingathering

Carolyn Kizer

Heart’s Limbo

Carolyn Kizer

The Great Blue Heron

Carolyn Kizer

Food of Love

Carolyn Kizer

Fanny

Carolyn Kizer

The Erotic Philosophers

Carolyn Kizer

Complex Autumnal

Carolyn Kizer

Children

Carolyn Kizer

A Child’s Guide to Central Ohio

Carolyn Kizer

Bitch

Carolyn Kizer

Arthur’s Party

Carolyn Kizer

Amusing Our Daughters

Carolyn Kizer

Afternoon Happiness

Carolyn Kizer

Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe

Carolyn Kizer

After Horace

Carolyn Kizer

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