Discipline: Literature

Carole Glasser-Langille

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985

Carole Glasser Langille is a Canadian poet, the author of three books of poetry.

Langille is originally from New York City, where she studied with the poets John Ashbery and Carolyn Forche. She has taught at The Humber School for Writing Summer Program, Maritime Writer's Workshop, the Community of Writers in Tatamagouche, and at Women's Words the University of Alberta. She has also taught courses called "Creative Writing" at Mount Saint Vincent University, "Writing for the Arts" at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She currently teaches Creative Writing: Poetry at Dalhousie University.

Several selections from Langille's book Late in a Slow Time have been adapted to music by renowned Canadian composer Chan Ka Nin. The production, narrated by Barbara Budd, debuted at the 2006 Sound Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland and is on Duo Concertante's CD Wild Bird (October 2010).

She has received Canada Council Grants for poetry, non-fiction and fiction as well as Nova Scotia Cultural Arts grants for poetry and fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Her fourth book of poetry, Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems, will be out in 2012.

Langille lives in Black Point, Nova Scotia with her family.

Studios

Schelling

Carole Glasser-Langille worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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