Julie Carr

Julie Carr (born 1966) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1]

She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in 1988, from New York University with an MFA in 1997, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 2006. She teaches at University of Colorado.[2]

Her work has appeared in Volt, Verse, New American Writing, Parthenon West, Boston Review, Verse, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, and Public Space.[3]

She is co-publisher of Counterpath Press.[4]

Awards

• 2009 National Poetry Series
• 2009 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize[5]
• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1]

Works

• "house/boat", Boston Review, April/May 2002
• "from Voc Ed", Tarpaulin Sky Fall Winter 2005
• Mead: An Epithalamion. University of Georgia Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8203-2684-9
• Equivocal. Alice James Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-882295-63-0
• Sarah—of Fragments and Lines. Coffee House Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56689-251-3
• 100 Notes on Violence. Ahsahta Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-934103-11-1
• Contributed to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013.[6]
• Someone Shot My Book. University of Michigan Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-472-03720-9

Anthologies

• "marriage", The Best American Poetry 2007 Simon and Schuster, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2
• Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, Fence Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9771064-8-6

Reviews

In her first book, Mead: an Epithalamion (2004), Julie Carr employed marriage as both a theme and as the starting point for her poetic inquiries into relation and interconnection. Her second book, Equivocal (2007), goes a step farther in its scope, exploring specifically the roles and bonds of mother and child, and of child-becoming-mother, as well as opening into questions of family, history, and identity. In this investigation, Carr seeks to confront issues of an individual’s responsibility to others, whether they be a child, parent, spouse, or the world itself.[7]

References

1. National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
2. "CU English". Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
3. "Colorado Poets Center : Julie Carr". Archived from the original on 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
4. "Counterpath Press—About". Archived from the original on 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
5. "Julia Carr - 100 Notes on Violence - Ahsahta PressAhsahta Press". Archived from the original on October 9, 2015.
6. Schneiderman, Davis (2012). The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books. ISBN 978-0982315644.
7. "Jacket 36 - Late 2008 - Julie Carr: «Equivocal», reviewed by Andy Frazee".

External links

• "Julie Carr", PennSound
• "Julie Carr: 100 Notes on Violence", Culture Industry, Mark Scroggins, April 12, 2010