Karl Kirchwey is a poet and translator who received a B.A. from Yale and an M.A. from Columbia University. He is the author of several poetry collections, one of which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His verse explores themes of loss and origin. Kirchwey has been awarded the Rome Prize and the Cato Prize for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell. He has taught at Columbia, Yale, Wesleyan. Smith College, Boston University, and Bryn Mawr College, where he received the Rosalind Schwartz Teaching Award.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Karl Kirchwey
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
Studios
Wood
Karl Kirchwey 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…