Carolyne Wright's most recent book is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017), whose title poem received a Pushcart Prize and was included in The Best American Poetry 2009. Her ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations. Forthcoming in fall 2021 from Lost Horse Press is Masquerade, the book in which "I Forgive" will appear. A Contributing Editor for the Pushcart Prizes, Wright teaches for Seattle's Richard Hugo House. She has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation (Chile, India, Bangladesh), the NEA, 4Culture, and the Seattle Arts Commission. In 2018 she held an Instituto Sacatar residency in Bahia, Brazil; and she has received a 2020-2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Salvador, Bahia, which she will take up after the Covid-19 pandemic subsides in that country.

Other poems by Carolyne Wright in Verse Daily:
May 25, 2020:   "Triolets on a Dune Shack" "We make love only once in the dune shack...."
April 17, 2018:   "This dream the world is having about itself..." "won't let us go. The western sky gathers..."
January 8, 2016:   "The Confessions of Eulene" "I eat too many Twinkies...."
September 13, 2011:   "'Mania Klepto'" "Eulene never comes to shoplift..."

Books by Carolyne Wright:

Other poems on the web by Carolyne Wright:
Two poems
Two poems
"The Puffing-Off Dance"
"Lady from Mountains"
Nine poems
Four poems
"Through Bus Windows: Seattle"

Carolyne Wright's Website.

Carolyne Wright According to Wikipedia.

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