Carolyn Kizer
Född	10 december 1925[1][2] Spokane[2], USA
Död	9 oktober 2014[3] (88 år) Sonoma, USA
Medborgare i	USA[3]
Utbildad vid	Columbia University, 1946 University of Washington, 1947 Sarah Lawrence College, filosofie kandidat, 1945[4] Lewis and Clark High School University of Washington, 1956[5]
Sysselsättning	Poet, skrivlärare[6], poesilärare[5], översättare[6], societetsperson, författare[7], redaktör[8]
Arbetsgivare	Princeton University University of Iowa Iowa Writers' Workshop Eastern Washington University[6] Columbia University San José State University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stanford University National Endowment for the Arts[6]
Utmärkelser
Pulitzerpriset för poesi (1985)[9] Robert Frost Medal (1988)[10] Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988)[11] Pushcart Prize
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Carolyn Ashley Kizer, född 10 december 1925 i Spokane, Washington, död 9 oktober 2014 i Sonoma, Kalifornien, var en amerikansk poet. Hon vann ett flertal pris för sina dikter, bland annat Pulitzerpriset.^[12]

Poesi

• Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000 (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
• Pro Femina: A Poem (BkMk Press, 2000)
• Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 (Copper Canyon Press, 1996)
• The Nearness of You (Copper Canyon Press, 1986)
• Yin (1984), which won the Pulitzer Prize
• Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women (Copper Canyon Press, 1984)
• Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems (1971)
• Knock Upon Silence (1965)
• The Ungrateful Garden (1961)

Prosa

• Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose (1995),
• Proses: Essays on Poets and Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)

• Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1985)
• Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters award
• Award of Honor of the San Francisco Arts Commission
• Borrestone Award (sex gånger)
• Pushcart Prize (tre gånger)
• Frost Medal
• John Masefield Memorial Award
• Governor's Award för årets bästa bok, State of Washington (1965, 1985)

• [1] "A Muse of Water", "Amusing Our Daughters", "Fanny," "Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve", "Pro Femina", "Summer near the River", "The Erotic Philosophers", "The Great Blue Heron", "The Intruder", "Through a Glass Eye, Lightly"
• [2] "Fearful Woman' '
• [3] "American Beauty"

• [4] New York Times review of ' 'The Nearness of You' ' (March 22, 1987)

• Barbara Thompson Davis (Spring 2000). ”Carolyn Kizer, The Art of Poetry No. 81”. The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/731/the-art-of-poetry-no-81-carolyn-kizer.