http://www.counterbalancepoetry.org/
Carolyn Kizer was named a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1995
and resigned in 1998 to protest the absence of women and people of color on the
board. The action was consistent with a life of intense dedication to her craft
and passionate pursuit of justice within and outside of her writing. In 1985,
he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a book of poems, Yin. From 1964-65, she
served as a literature consultant for the U.S. State Department in Pakistan. She
also was the first director of the National Endowment for the Arts literary program.
Prior to Cool, Calm & Collected, she had published eight books of poetry.
In his notes for our program, Edwin Weihe wrote: "Few women writers in
modern American letters have so sharply and gracefully challenged the patriarchal
poetry establishment and cleared the air, and the path, for what is already
now several generations of confident women, these often amazing poetic voices.
Carolyn Kizer, they will tell you, polished the stones for them to walk on."