Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry including Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, a collection of essays, and three volumes of poetry translated from Bengali and Spanish. She lives in Seattle, where she serves on the faculty of the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program.
Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry including Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, a collection of essays, and three vol...
"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." --from "In Order to Talk with the Dead"
Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge...
"In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are...
When President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, poets Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo felt the need to hear from women about their workplace experiences ? not just pay and promotion inequity, sexual harassment, and intimidation ? but the increasing range of women's occupations and options in a globalized world. Wright and Toledo, along with coeditor M. L. Lyons, have brought together voices of women poets in the workspaces they occupy: from cotton rows to corner suites, trawlers to typing pools, nursing stations to space stations, factory floors to faculty offices....
When President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, poets Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo felt the need to hear from women abo...
