Linda McCarriston

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Linda McCarriston (born Lynn, Massachusetts) and holding dual citizenship of Ireland and the United States, is a poet and Professor in the Department of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Alaska Anchorage, teaching creative writing and literary arts since 1994. [1]

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Life

McCarriston had completed her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont and a BFA at Emmanuel College in Boston. She has taught at Vermont College, Goddard College and George Washington University and has been a Poetry Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. [2] [3]

Poetry

American journalist, public commentator, and former White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers says she writes "about women, children, animals — healing" that "deal with the domestic violence that marred her childhood in working-class Lynn, Massachusetts and her subsequent feelings as a wife and mother." [4] According to National Book Award winner Lisel Mueller: "Linda McCarriston accomplishes a near miracle, transforming memories of trauma into poems that are luminous and often sacramental, arriving at a hard-won peace." [2]

While she was writing for the Maine Sunday Telegram , in Spring 1979 issue of literary journal Ploughshares , printed her 5 poems named, "Moon in Aquarius", "Eve", "Desire", "The Cleaving" and "Intent" as her first poetry publication. [5]

Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly , New England Monthly , Harvard Review and "in a broad range of anthologies", she is interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air (a local radio) and featured in Bill Moyers' "The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets" at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and book The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, 1995. She interviewed for All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR), aired July 14, 2001, included in Linda Hogan's "Intimate Nature" and Robert McDowell's "Cowboy Poetry Matters" and in The New York Times Book Review . [2] [3] [6]

Her poem "Le Coursier de Jeanne d'Arc" was scored for soprano Judith Coen by Bruno Rigacci and had its premiere at the Spoleto Arts Symposia in July 2000.
Two of her poems were read by Garrison Keillor in "The Writer's Almanac", NPR, in the week of April 18, 2000.
Invited to contribute 60-page autobiography to Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Gale Research, 1996

She was a speaker with the poet Richard Hoffman, Grace Paley, Marybeth Holleman and Elizabeth Wales, at the panel titled "Writing with Heart AND Intellect" during Annual AWP Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia on March 31, 2005. [7]

Honors and awards

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Linda McCarriston". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2017-07-28.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. 1 2 3 "UAA Campus Bookstore Linda McCarriston". University of Alaska Anchorage. 2007-01-23. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Walters, Diane, ed. (2004). "Poet and Teacher McCarriston is Named Alaska Press Women Communicator of Achievement" (PDF). 35. No. 2. Alaska Press Women. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-02-28.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Poet Profile - Linda McCarriston". PBS. 2002-02-22. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  5. ↑ "Spring 1979 Table of Contents". Ploughshares. 1979-03-21. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
  6. ↑ "This year's COAN nominees for 2004 'Best of the Best'" (PDF). Agenda. National Feberation of press Women. 67 (3): 2. 2004.
  7. ↑ Richard Hoffman Biography Page [ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Poet Profile - Linda McCarriston | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  9. ↑ "National Book Awards – 1991". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
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