Caroline Cottom

Poet

2608 Cromwell Rd.

Greensboro, NC 27407

Phone:

366-601-1050

Email:

aplacetobe1@gmail.com

Website:

www.carolinecottom.com

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The 64 Best Poets of 2018 (Black Mountain Press, 2019)

Motif IV: Seeking Its Own Level (Motes Books, 2014)

The Unitarian Universalist Poets: A Contemporary Survey (Pudding House Publications, 1996)

Journals:

Broad River Review

Crack the Spine

Cumberland Poetry Review

Glassworks Magazine

Licking River Review

Mandala Journal

Old Hickory Review

Pennsylvania English

Schuylkill Valley Journal

Serving House Journal

Silk Road

Prizes won:

1st prize, Transitions Abroad personal essay contest, 2007

Winner, The Writer's Center, North Carolina, personal essay contest

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

W.S. Merwin, Louise Gluck , Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Doerr, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marilynne Robinson, Claudia Rankine, Natasha Tretheway, Jericho Brown, Bill Brown, Ilya Kaminsky, Kim Addonizio, Lise Goett

What I'm reading now:

Vocabulary of Silence by Veronica Golos, Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky, At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered by Jeffrey Levine

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Memphis, TN

Tennessee

Raised in:

Geneva, IL

Illinois

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Last update: Jun 14, 2021