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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Owls Head, ME

Maine US

Email:

clairemr@aya.yale.edu

Bio:

I am a poet and scholar, publishing poetry as Claire Millikin, and scholarship as Claire Raymond. I teach Art History at the University of Maine and for the Institute in Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. My poetry contends with issues of homelessness, exile, and displacement. I am based in coastal Maine.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Raymond Chandler, Patrick Modiano, and Emily Dickinson, Garth Stein

Raised in:

GA

Georgia

Website:

https://claireraymond.org [2]

Prizes won:

Poetry Book Award for the North American Writers and Publishers, Poetry Society of Virginia, semi-finalist for Dolls (2Leaf Press, 2021); Maine Literary Award First Prize for Enough! Poems of Protest and Resistance (Littoral Books 2021); Maine Literary Award Finalist (2019) for State Fair Animals (Unicorn Press); CALYX Lois Cranston Prize, First Prize (2015) for "Atlantic." 2015 Maine Literary Award Finalist for Poetry for Motels Where We Lived (Unicorn Press); 2017 Maine Literary Award for Poetry, Finalist for Television (Unicorn Press); 2018 California State Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention, for "How To Build a Mirror"

What I'm reading now:

How to Live Together by Roland Barthes

One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson

And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge

Body Leaping Backward by Maureen Stanton

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Identifies as:

Feminist

Prefers to work with:

Children