Discipline: Literature – poetry

Carole Oles

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Chico, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977, 1980, 2003
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Carole Oles is a poet and an author, her most recent book of poems, A Selected History of Her Heart, was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2014. She is the author of eight previous collections, including Waking Stone: Inventions on the Life of Harriet Hosmer (University of Arkansas Press) and The Deed (Louisiana State University Press). Her poems have been published in magazines such as American Poetry Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Women’s Review of Books. They appear in anthologies including Poems for a Small Planet, The Ploughshares Poetry Reader, and Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems. Her essays have appeared in Field, Telling the Barn Swallow, Touchstones, and other magazines and anthologies. Born in New York City, she has taught in Massachusetts, Virginia, and California and at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. She is currently professor emerita at California State University, Chico.

Studios

New Jersey

Carole Oles worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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