Karen Swenson

Karen Swenson (born July 29, 1936 New York City) is an American poet and journalist.

Life

She grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and studied at Barnard College and New York University.[1]

Swenson has been Poet-in-Residence at Skidmore College, the University of Idaho, University of Denver, Clark University, Scripps College and Barnard College. She taught at City College, New York.[2]

Her work has appeared in The New York Times,[3] The Beloit Poetry Journal,[4] Paris Review,[5] American Poetry Review, "Saturday Review", and "The New Yorker".

Awards

Works

  • A daughter's latitude: new & selected poems. Copper Canyon Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55659-094-8.
  • The landlady in Bangkok. Copper Canyon Press. 1994. ISBN 978-1-55659-067-2.
  • A sense of direction. Smith. 1989. ISBN 978-0-912292-85-4.
  • East-West: poems. Confluence Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-917652-23-3.
  • An attic of ideals. Doubleday. 1974. ISBN 978-0-385-08073-6.

Stories

  • James O'Reilly; Larry Habegger, eds. (2002). "Roaches and Redheads". Travelers' Tales Thailand: True Stories. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-885211-75-0.

Anthologies

Edited

Reviews

For a poet, the value of travel has more to do with the self a writer brings to a place than any impression he or she takes from the landscape or the people there. Karen Swenson has traveled extensively over the past four decades, and in A Daughter's Latitude she reports not only on visits to countries like Malaysia and Thailand but also on her return trips to the provinces of childhood memory.[7]

References

  1. "About Karen Swenson | Academy of American Poets".
  2. "New York State Writers Institute - Karen Swenson".
  3. The New York Times https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=KAREN+SWENSON&more=date_all. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2009-09-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/karen-swenson/
  7. Joy Katz (April 11, 1999). "BOOKS IN BRIEF: POETRY". The New York Times.
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