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Carolyn Kizer

Poet Carolyn Kizer was UNC's writer-in-residence in 1967–68 and joined the English faculty on February 1, 1970, as a visiting lecturer heading the poetry side of the creative writing program. She came to UNC from the national arts foundation, where she had led its literary program.

Source: DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, page 3

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Carolyn Kizer, newspaper photograph, 1970
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  1. Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC Poet Carolyn Kizer was one of four writers-in-residence UNC brought to campus for the 1967–68 year, meeting informally with classes and student writers and giving a public address. During the residency she directed the student publication project of a new English course on little magazines. People: David Madden Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 12, 1967, p. 16
  2. Carolyn Kizer joins the UNC English faculty to head poetry writing Kizer joined UNC's English department on February 1, 1970, as a visiting lecturer, to develop a poetry curriculum and head the poetry side of the creative writing program under Max Steele. She remained UNC's poet-in-residence until 1974. People: Louis D. Rubin Jr., Max Steele Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, p. 3
  3. Carolyn Kizer and Po Fei Huang read Chinese poems in Greenlaw Hall Kizer, then UNC's poet-in-residence, and Po Fei Huang, director of East Asian language and literature at Yale, read and chanted Chinese poems and translations in 101 Greenlaw as part of a week of programs on East Asia. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Po Fei HuangSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 1974, p. 1
  4. Carolyn Kizer wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Kizer won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Yin: New Poems, more than a decade after she left her UNC post.Search the index · Indiana University Lilly Library: Kizer, C. mss., 1825-2006

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  • Greenlaw Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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Picture: Carolyn Kizer, newspaper photograph, 1970. Public domain. The Daily Tar Heel, 1970; via Wikimedia Commons

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