Caroline Knox (born 1938) is an American poet based in Massachusetts. She is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, ''Quaker Guns'' ( Wave Books, 2008), and ''Nine Worthies'' (Wave Books, 2010). Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Times Literary Supplement,'' and ''Yale Review.'' Her poems have also been included in Best American Poetry (1988 and 1994). Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. Knox earned her A.B. from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

and her M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Bibliography

* ''Hear Trains'' ( Wave Books, forthcoming 2019) * ''To Drink Boiled Snow'' ( Wave Books, 2015) * ''Flemish'' ( Wave Books, 2013) * ''Nine Worthies'' ( Wave Books, 2010) * ''Quaker Guns'' ( Wave Books, 2008) * ''He Paves the Road with Iron Bars'' (Verse Press, 2004) * ''A Beaker: New and Selected Poems'' (Verse Press, 2002) * ''Sleepers Wake'' (Timken Publishers, 1994) * ''To Newfoundland'' ( University of Georgia Press, 1989) * ''The House Party'' (University of Georgia Press, 1984)

Honors and awards

* 2006 Massachusetts Cultural Council * 2005 Maurice English Poetry Award (for ''He Paves the Road with Iron Bars'') * 1996 Massachusetts Cultural Council * 1986 National Endowment for the Arts FellowshipNEA Literature Fellowships > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers

References

External links

Author Page: Caroline Knox > Wave Books

Review: ''Bookslut'' > May 2008 > Review by Josh Cook of ''Quaker Guns'' by Caroline Knox

Poem: Academy of American Poets > ''His Heart'' by Caroline Knox

Poem: ''Boston Review'' > Jan/Feb 2006 > ''My Husband Sat Up'' by Caroline Knox
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