Carolyn Creedon

Carolyn Creedon
Reading at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, 2014
Born	1969 Newport News, Virginia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Smith College, University of Virginia

Carolyn Creedon (born 1969) Newport News, Virginia is an American poet.

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 July 2, 2016.
• "Doris". Ploughshares. Spring 2009. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016.

References

1. Clemente, Schuyler (2005-05-13). "Smith Student Wins Prestigious Glascock Poetry Prize". The Smith College Sophian. Archived from the original on July 2, 2016.
2. "Carolyn Creedon". poetryfoundation.org. 23 July 2021.
3. "Massachusetts Review: An independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs - Back Issues". archive.org. 10 January 2010. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
4. Green Street Cafe (10 April 2009). "Letter To the Editor that the Daily Hampshire Gazette refused to run". greenstreetcafe.blogspot.com.
5. "UNO Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing, Writing Contest, Past Winners". lowres.uno.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24.
6. "Graduate Student News - English Department Newsletter, U.Va". Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
7. Puican, Mike. "Review of Wet by Carolyn Creedon". Triquarterly. Retrieved 19 March 2014. Creedon is at her strongest in poems in which she and the people she describe claim their experiences—the joys, the mistakes, the inequities—and, from them, create brash, original lives. There is a freshness not only in her overall perspective but in the energy and creativity in which the poems are conceived and expressed.

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