Hartwick Writer in Residence and Professor of English Carol Frost was featured in the October 2007 edition of Poetry, the acclaimed magazine of The Poetry Foundation. Her poem "Apiary viii (For the ones" was prominent in both the publication and its online version.
Frost teaches poetry and fiction workshops at Hartwick, Introduction to Creative Writing, Experiencing Writing in Australia, and an occasional seminar on poets such as Robert Frost and Muriel Rukeyser. She also directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop.
She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes (with nominations every year for the last sixteen years), and magazine prizes from Ploughshares and Prairie Schooner. She was a poetry editor for the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her poems and essays appear in such places as The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, New England Review, Atlantic Monthly, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and have been read on "The Writer's Almanac" (Minnesota Public Radio).
Frost's career as a poet spans nearly 25 years. Her first book, "The Salt Lesson," was published in 1976 by Graywolf Press. Since then, nine collections of her poems have appeared in print. In awarding "Liar's Dice" (1978) sole honorable mention, the Elliston Committee called the collection "remarkable," referring to "the now-fluid, now-dense syntax of imagery, the subtle variations of voice and stance, the insight." The poetic voice in her second volume "The Fearful Child" (1983), a ccording to Michael Waters, "is gentle, musical, and filled swith the wisdom of women we often meet in fairy-tales." The poems in "Day of the Body" (1986) were praised for their "staggering strength, unyielding power, and elusive beauty." "Chimera" was runner-up for the Poets' Prize in 1990. Critical reception for "Pure" (1994) and "Venus & Don Juan" (1996) was equally positive. Dorothy Barresi in her review of Pure in the "Gettysburg Review" describes the poems as being "saturated with urgency." "They shine," she says, "with a strange inner light." The images in "Venus & Don Juan" "stretch the imagination in new ways to revisit old truths about ourselves," says a reviewer in "The Blue Moon Review". That collection was on the short list for the Kingsley-Tufts award.
Frost's most recent books, "I Will Say Beauty," (February, 2003), and "The Queen's Desertion" (May, 2006) were both published by Northwestern University Press.
She has taught for the Master of Fine Arts programs at Washington University, Wichita State University, and the low residency program at Warren Wilson. She has been on the faculty for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has given readings and workshops at West Point, USC, Pomona, University of Illinois, Johns Hopkins, Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, San Francisco State, University of Florida, LSU, and more. She most recently read at Drexel University October 23.
Founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, Poetry magazine is a publication of The Poetry Foundation, an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
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