Carol Hamilton (born 1935) was the Oklahoma Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997. [1] [2]
Carol Jean Hamilton was born in 1935 in Enid, Oklahoma. Her mother, Ruby Barber, was also a poet and a professor at Rose State College and Midwest City High School. [3] Hamilton graduated Midwest City High School in 1953, received her bachelor's degree from Phillips University in 1956, and later a master's degree from the University of Central Oklahoma. [4] [2] She taught at Midwest City Del City schools, Rose State College, and the University of Central Oklahoma. [4] She helped found the Woody Guthrie Poets in 2004. [2]
Her book Once the Dust published by Broncho Press was a 1992 Oklahoma Book Award winner. [4] She won the 1987 and 1992 Byline Literary award for "The Summary" and "In the Distance," respectively. [5] She was nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. [6] Her work has been published in many journals, including Christian Science Monitor, Christian Century, Arizona Quarterly, [3] Quartet, The Prairie Poet, Encounter, Audit, Discourse, Quoin, New Campus Review, Roanoke Review, and Cimarron Review. [7] Her poem "Patterns" appears in the 1983 anthology Peace: A Poetry Anthology created as a fundraiser for the Benedictine Peace House. [8]
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