Carol Frost (born 1948) is an American poet. Frost has published several collections of poetry, and has held several teaching residencies. Frost is the founder and director of the Catskill Poetry Workshop at

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. Her work has featured in four

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anthologies.

Biography

Frost was born in

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, and later graduated from the State University of Oneonta and Syracuse University after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Frost has received grants from the

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and is the winner of

s. Frost's poetry has been praised for its "protean layers of observation" and her “encyclopedic approach to subject matter.” Frost writes in intensive bursts of at least three weeks after spending not writing for several weeks or months. After her bursts of writing she likes to walk or go sailing. As a teacher Frost has been in residence at the

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and taught at

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and

Wichita State University Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in ...

. Frost has also been a visiting poet at

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in Australia.

Bibliography

*''Alias City'' (2019) *''Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences'' (2014) *''Honeycomb: Poems'' (2010) *''The Queen's Desertion'' (2006) *''I Will Say Beauty'' (2003) *''Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems'' (2000) *''Venus and Don Juan'' (1996) *''Pure'' (1994) *''Chimera'' (1990) *''Day of the Body'' (1986) *''The Fearful Child'' (1983) *''Liar’s Dice'' (1978) *''The Salt Lesson'' (1976)

References

External links

Frost's faculty page at New England CollegeFrost's poems at the Poetry Foundation
Living people 1948 births Writers from Lowell, Massachusetts American academics of English literature American women poets American literary critics American women critics 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Washington University in St. Louis faculty Hartwick College faculty Wichita State University faculty Academic staff of the University of Wollongong {{US-poet-1940s-stub