Discipline: Literature – poetry

Carol Moldaw

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Santa Fe, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
Carol Moldaw is an American poet, novelist, and critic. She is the author of six books of poetry: Beauty Refracted; So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems; The Lightning Field, which won the FIELD Poetry Prize; Through the Window; Chalkmarks on Stone; and Taken from the River. She is also author of the novel, The Widening. Moldaw’s prose has also been published in numerous journals and magazines including AGNI, The Antioch Review, The Boston Review, Broad Street, FIELD, The Massachusetts Review, Partisan Review, and Plume. Her poems have been anthologized in Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (McGraw-Hill) and Under 35: A New Generation of American Poets (Anchor), and her work has been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Turkish. Moldaw is the recipient of several literary distinctions including an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency. Her book The Lightning Field won the FIELD Poetry Prize.

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Mansfield

Carol Moldaw worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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