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Anders Carlson-Wee | |
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 Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015. | |
| Born | May 18, 1985 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Education | Fairhaven College Vanderbilt University |
| Genre | Poetry |
Anders Carlson-Wee is an American poet. His first collection, The Low Passions, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. [1] Norton will publish his second collection, Disease of Kings, in 2023. [2] [3]
Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Lutheran pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. [4] He is a former professional rollerblader, [5] and has written extensively about hopping freight trains and traveling the country. [6] He has dyslexia. [7]
He has two brothers: poet and filmmaker Kai Carlson-Wee and entrepreneur Olaf Carlson-Wee.
Carlson-Wee studied at Fairhaven College of Western Washington University before earning his MFA at Vanderbilt University. [8] [9]
His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including The Paris Review, Harvard Review , BuzzFeed, The American Poetry Review , Ploughshares , and Virginia Quarterly Review .
Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals. [10]
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