Carolyn Kizer Biography

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Poet, born in Spokane, Washington, USA. She studied at Sarah Lawrence (1945 BA), Columbia University (1945-6), and the University of Washington, Seattle (1946-7), and settled in Port Townsend, WA. A founding editor of Poetry Northwest (1959-65), she taught at many institutions. She is known for her feminist poetry, as in Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women (1984).

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