Barbara Cully (born 1955
San Diego, California
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) is an American
poet
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.
Life
She has taught at the Prague Summer Writers' Program, and teaches at the
University of Arizona
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. She is a contributing editor of ''Cue''.
Awards
* 1996
National Poetry Series
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Open Competition, for ''The New Intimacy''
* Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
* Writer-in-Residence for the YMCA Writer's Voice.
Works
"Night Fishing"; "Organizing a Piece of Cheese", ''Spork Press''"You your day...", ''University of Arizona Poetry Center''
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Anthology
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References
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1955 births
Living people
Writers from San Diego
University of Arizona faculty
American women poets
American women academics
21st-century American women