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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 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 MaddenSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, September 12, 1967, page 16
- 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: Max Steele, Louis D. Rubin Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 14, 1970, page 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, March 25, 1974, page 1
- 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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- David Madden 1 entry: Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC (1967–1968)
- Louis D. Rubin Jr. 1 entry: Carolyn Kizer joins the UNC English faculty to head poetry writing (1970–1974)
- Max Steele 1 entry: Carolyn Kizer joins the UNC English faculty to head poetry writing (1970–1974)
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Picture: Carolyn Kizer, newspaper photograph, 1970. Public domain. The Daily Tar Heel, 1970; via Wikimedia Commons
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