Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. In 1959, she helped found Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965. n the 1970s and 1980s, she held appointments as poet-in-residence or lecturer at universities across the country, has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country. Kizer was also a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She divides her time between her home in Sonoma, California and her apartment in Paris.

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Sonoma

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Carrying Over: Poems From The Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, And French African

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