Karen Swenson (born July 29, 1936 New York City) is an American poet.
Life[]
Born in New York City, she grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and studied at Barnard College and New York University.[1]
Swenson has been Poet-in-Residence at Skidmore College, the University of Idaho, Denver University, Clark University and Scripps College. She taught at City College, New York.[2]
Her work has appeared in The New York Times,[3] The Beloit Poetry Journal,[4] Paris Review,[5] American Poetry Review, and Poetry.
Writing[]
New York Times: "For a poet, the value of travel has more to do with the self a writer brings to a place than any impression he or she takes from the landscape or the people there. Karen Swenson has traveled extensively over the past four decades, and in A Daughter's Latitude she reports not only on visits to countries like Malaysia and Thailand but also on her return trips to the provinces of childhood memory."[6]
Recognition[]
- 1993 National Poetry Series, for The Landlady in Bangkok
- Lannan Residency [7]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- An attic of ideals. Doubleday. 1974. ISBN 9780385080736.
- East-West: poems. Confluence Press. 1980. ISBN 9780917652233.
- A sense of direction. Smith. 1989. ISBN 9780912292854.
- The landlady in Bangkok. Copper Canyon Press. 1994. ISBN 9781556590672.
- A daughter's latitude: new & selected poems. Copper Canyon Press. 1999. ISBN 9781556590948.
Stories[]
- James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, ed (2002). "Roaches and Redheads". Travelers' Tales Thailand: True Stories. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 9781885211750.
Anthologies[]
- Hilda Raz, ed (2001). "I Have Lost the Address of my Country". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. Translator Hilda Raz. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803289727.
Edited[]
- Sarah M. Anderson, Karen Swenson, ed (2002). Cold counsel: women in Old Norse literature and mythology : a collection of essays. Routledge. ISBN 9780815319665.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/966
- ↑ http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/swenson.html
- ↑ The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=KAREN+SWENSON&more=date_all.
- ↑ http://www.bpj.org/index/S.html
- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/73
- ↑ Joy Katz (April 11, 1999). "BOOKS IN BRIEF: POETRY". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/books/books-in-brief-poetry-038725.html.
- ↑ http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/karen-swenson/
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