Susan Kinsolving is an American poet
whose books include ''The White Eyelash'', ''Dailies & Rushes'' (a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award
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,
Poetry
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,
Yale Review
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It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on ...
, The
Paris Review
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,
The New Republic
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, The Nation'', and ''The
Washington Post
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''. A finalist for the
Walt Whitman Award and the
Yale Younger Series award, she has taught at
Bennington College
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California Institute of the Arts
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,
University of Connecticut
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Southampton College
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History
Southampton College, ...
, and
Chautauqua Institution
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.
She has received international fellowships from France, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and Scotland.
Glimmerglass Opera
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commissioned her to write lyrics for a
cantata, entitled ''Constellations'', in collaboration with composer
David Carlson
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Early life
Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts. From 1988 to 1992 he was coo ...
. Several of her poems have been set to music and performed in the United States and abroad. She has been invited to present her poems at universities, clubs, libraries and literary festivals throughout the world. She is currently Poet in Residence at
The Hotchkiss School
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in
Lakeville, Connecticut
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.
References
American women poets
Living people
Bennington College faculty
California Institute of the Arts faculty
University of Connecticut faculty
Stony Brook University faculty
Chautauqua Institution
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
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