Discipline: Literature – poetry

Carolyn Stoloff

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1961, 1962, 1970, 1976
Carolyn Stoloff is the author of Reaching for Honey (Red Hen Press), You Came to Meet Someone Else (Asylum Arts), A Spool of Blue: New and Selected Poems (Scarecrow Press), Dying to Survive (Doubleday & Co.), Swiftly Now (Ohio University Press) and Stepping Out (Unicorn Press), as well as two chapbooks, Lighter Than Night Verse and In The Red Meadow. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as the New Yorker, The Nation, Cincinnati Review, Hotel Amerika, The Bitter Oleander, and Bomb, and in many anthologies including The New Yorker Book of Poems, New Directions 53, Rising Tides, and A Year in Poetry. Stoloff was awarded a National Council on the Arts Award for achievement, the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest, and numerous other awards. She has also visited MacDowell, the UCROSS Foundation, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among other colonies. A poet and painter, she taught both poetry and studio art at Manhattanville College for many years. She also taught in public schools, a house of detention, and a Quaker-run halfway house for drug addicts.

Studios

Irving Fine

Carolyn Stoloff worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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