Cathleen Calbert is an author. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many publications, including Ms. Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. She is the author of four previous books of poetry: Lessons in Space, Bad Judgment, Sleeping with a Famous Poet, and The Afflicted Girls. In addition to the Vernice Quebodeaux “Pathways” Poetry Prize for Women, her awards include The Nation Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Sheila Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club, and the Mary Tucker Thorp Award from Rhode Island College.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Cathleen Calbert
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Pacific Grove, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
More:
www.cathleencalbert.com
Studios
Wood
Cathleen Calbert worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…