Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
15-670: For the song recorded by Merle Haggard, see Carolyn (song) . For the lake in Texas, see Las Colinas . Carolyn Pronunciation CA-ro-lin Gender Feminine Origin Word/name French Other names Related names Carolyne, Carolynne, Karolyn, Caroline , Carol , Charles Carolyn is a female given name , a variant of Caroline . Other spellings include Karolyn , Carolyne , Carolynn or Carolynne . Caroline itself
30-553: A creative writing workshop run by poet Theodore Roethke . "Kizer had three small kids, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough money to get by and more than enough talent and determination. And although one of her poems had been published in The New Yorker when she was 17, she remembers that she needed a nudge from Roethke to get serious." Her marriage to Bullitt ended in divorce in 1954. In 1959, she helped found Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965. She
45-584: A total of fifteen weeks on the chart. This 1970s country song –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Carolyn Kizer According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, "Kizer reach[ed] into mythology in poems like Semele Recycled ; into politics, into feminism, especially in her series of poems called "Pro Femina"; into science,
60-530: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carolyn (song) " Carolyn " is a song written by Tommy Collins , and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers . It was released in November 1971 as the second single from the album Someday We'll Look Back . The song was Haggard and The Strangers eleventh number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single stayed at number one for three weeks and spent
75-812: Is one of the feminine forms of Charles . List of notable people [ edit ] Carolyn Bennett (born 1950), Canadian politician Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966), American chemist and Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertram (born 1976), Canadian politician Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966–1999), wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Carolyn Beug (1952–2001), American filmmaker Carolyn Bolivar-Getson (born 1964), Canadian politician Carolyn Brown (choreographer) (born 1927), American dancer, choreographer, and writer Carolyn Brown (newsreader) , English newsreader Carolyn Cassady (1923–2013), American writer and wife of Neal Cassady C. J. Cherryh (Carolyn Janice Cherryh; born 1942), American science fiction and fantasy writer Carolyn Chiechi (born 1943), judge of
90-619: The University of Washington (1946–47). She then moved back to Washington state, and in 1946 married Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney from a wealthy and influential Seattle family, with whom she had three children; Fred Nemo, Jill Bullitt , and Ashley Bullitt. Her husband was the son of Dorothy Bullitt , who founded the Bullitt Foundation and the King Broadcasting Company . In 1954 she enrolled in
105-1188: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Carolyn Omine ( fl. 1990s–2020s ), American television writer and producer Carolyn Miller Parr (born 1937), judge of the United States Tax Court Carolyn Parrish (born 1946), Canadian politician Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist Carolyn Reidy (1949–2020), president and CEO of the American publishing company Simon & Schuster Carolyn See (1934–2016), American author and reviewer Carolyn Seymour (born 1947), English actress Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021), American astronomer Carolyn Stewart-Olsen (born 1946), Canadian politician Carolyn Watkinson (born 1949), English mezzo-soprano singer Carolyn D. Wright (1949–2016), American poet Carolyn Yarnell (born 1961), American composer and visual artist In fiction [ edit ] Carolyn Barek , on
120-581: The House Un-American Activities Committee and other villains of the 1950s, to even more devastating effect", and, she added, "I almost forgave him." After graduating from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, she went on to get her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College (where she studied comparative mythologies with Joseph Campbell ) in 1945 and study as a graduate at both Columbia University (1945–46) and
135-534: The N.E.A. for the following year. In the 1970s and 1980s, she held appointments as poet-in-residence or lecturer at universities across the country including Columbia , Stanford , Princeton , San Jose State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country, as well as in Dublin , Ireland , and Paris . Kizer
150-2364: The United States Tax Court Carolyn Cooper (born 1959), Jamaican author and literary scholar Carolyn Davidson , several people Carolyn Eaton (1964–1982), American murder victim Carolyn Fe , Filipina singer and actress Carolyn Forché (born 1950), American poet, editor, translator and human rights advocate Carolyn Franklin (1944–1988), American singer and songwriter, sister of Aretha Franklin Carolyn Gates , professor of veterinary science Carolyn Gray , Canadian Playwright Carolyn Harris (born 1960), British politician Carolyn Lynnet Harris (1948–1994), American librarian Carolyn Wilson Harris (1849–1910), American lichenologist Carolyn Hart (born 1936), American mystery writer Carolyn Hax (born 1966), American writer and advice columnist Carolyn Hennesy (born 1962), American actress Carolyn Price Horton (1909–2001), American bookbinder and conservator Carolyn Hunt (born 1937), American educator, politician, and First Lady of North Carolina Carolyn Dawn Johnson (born 1971), Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Jones (1930–1983), American actress Carolyn Jones (politician) , Canadian politician Carolyn Jones-Young (born 1969), American basketball player Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born 1945), American politician Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (born 1946), American poet Carolyn Lawrence (born 1967), American voice actress Carolyn Leigh (1926–1983), American lyricist Carolyn Ringer Lepre , American academic administrator Carolyn Lynch (1946–2015), American philanthropist Carolyn Mahoney (born 1946), American mathematician Carolyn Maloney (born 1946), American politician Carolyn Martin (born 1951), American academic, author and president of Amherst College Carolyn McCarthy (born 1944), American politician Carolyn McCormick (born 1959), American actress Carolyn McCurdie , British-born New Zealand author Carolyn D. Meadows (born 1938), American activist Carolyn Merchant (born 1936), American ecofeminist Carolyn Morris (1925–1996), pitcher in
165-549: The natural world, music, and translations and commentaries on Japanese and Chinese literatures". Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington , the daughter of a socially prominent Spokane couple. Her father, Benjamin Hamilton Kizer (1878–1978), who was 45 when she was born, was a successful attorney. Her mother, Mabel Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology who had received her doctorate from Stanford University . Kizer
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195-858: The television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent Carolyn Keene , pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew and The Dana Girls mystery stories Carolyn Stoddard , from the soap opera Dark Shadows Princess Carolyn , from the adult animation series Bojack Horseman Carolyn Trainer , a supervillain from Marvel Comics, also known as Lady Octopus See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Carolyn All pages with titles containing Carolyn All pages with titles beginning with Carolyne All pages with titles beginning with Carolynne Carolan (surname) Caroly (name) " Carolyna " Carolyne Carolynn Karolyn [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
210-574: Was a "Specialist in Literature" for the U.S. State Department in Pakistan 1965–1966, during which she taught for several months in that country. In 1966, she became the first director of Literary Programs for the newly created National Endowment for the Arts . She resigned that post in 1970, when the N.E.A. chairman, Roger L. Stevens , was fired by President Richard Nixon . She was a consultant to
225-414: Was once asked if she agreed with a description of her father as someone who "came across as supremely structured, intelligent, polite but always somewhat remote". Her reply: "Add 'authoritarian and severe', and you get a pretty good approximation of how he appeared to that stranger, his child". At times, she related, her father gave her the same "viscera-shriveling" voice she heard him use later on "members of
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