biography
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Kizer, Carolyn (Ashley)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| 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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