Carrie Fountain
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Carrie Fountain is an American poet
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She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico
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She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, and received Swink Magazines Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize.
She wrote for the Texas Observer,
and was poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman.
Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems, and Missouri Review Online.
She lives in Austin, Texas
and teaches at St. Edward's University.
She is married to the playwright Kirk Lynn
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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 97,618 in 2010 according to the 2010 Census, making it the second largest city in the state....
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She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, and received Swink Magazines Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize.
She wrote for the Texas Observer,
and was poetry columnist for the Austin American-Statesman.
Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review, 32 Poems, and Missouri Review Online.
She lives in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
and teaches at St. Edward's University.
She is married to the playwright Kirk Lynn
Kirk Lynn
Kirk Lynn is a playwright who lives in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in 1990. He is one of the founders of Rude Mechanicals theater company and he has been working with this collaborative theater company since 1996...
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Works
- "Purple Heart", Marlboro Review
- "Burn Lake 2", Swink, 2007
- "Father and Son at the Mesilla Valley Drive-thru Bank", AGNI
- "Theory of Perfection", AGNI
- "El Camino Real 3 ", Poetry for Children
- Burn Lake. Penguin Group USA, 2010, ISBN 9780143117711
External links
- "Carrie Fountain’s, Burn Lake", September 19, 2009