Paulann Petersen

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Paulann Petersen
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Paulann Whitman

1942
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Paulann Petersen (born 1942) an American poet from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, she was Oregon's sixth poet laureate.

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Biography

Petersen was born in 1942 in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Franklin High School in Southeast Portland. [1] Following high school she went to Pomona College in Claremont, California, before returning to Oregon. [2] Petersen settled in Klamath Falls in Southern Oregon with her family, remaining for 31 years. [1] In 1991, she returned to Portland where she taught high school English at schools such as West Linn High School. [1]

Literary career

In 1975, she had her first published piece, a poem in The Oregonian . [2] Petersen was a Stegner Fellow in 1986–1987. [3] She twice has won Carloyn Kizer Poetry Awards, and also was the recipient of the Stewart Holbrook Award, given for contributions to Oregon literature. [1] In 2002, The Wild Awakeher first full-length collection of poemswas published by Confluence Press. Two years later, she published Blood-Silk, a collection of poems about Turkey. A Bride of Narrow Escape was published in 2006, and Kindle was published in 2008. [4] Petersen was appointed as Oregon's Poet Laureate in 2010, the sixth in state history, replacing Lawson Inada. [1] [2] The Voluptuary was published in 2010, and Understory was published in 2013. She was given a second term as poet laureate in 2012, [5] with her term then ending in April 2014. [6]

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