Carolyn Creedon | |
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 Reading at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, 2014 | |
| Born | 1969 Newport News, Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Smith College, University of Virginia |
Carolyn Creedon (born 1969) Newport News, Virginia is an American poet.
She left college and worked as a waitress in San Francisco. [1] She graduated from Smith College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Virginia with an M.F.A. [2]
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, [3] Yale Review.
She wrote a letter in support of the Green Street Cafe. [4]
She is married to Paul Andrews. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Creedon is at her strongest in poems in which she and the people she describe claim their experiences—the joys, the mistakes, the inequities—and, from them, create brash, original lives. There is a freshness not only in her overall perspective but in the energy and creativity in which the poems are conceived and expressed.
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