Brenda Coultas Explained

Brenda Coultas
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Naropa University
Awards:	Norma Farber First Book Award (2004)

Brenda Coultas is an American poet.

Life

She was raised in Indiana, often working odd jobs such as welding.^[1]

She graduated from Naropa University, studying with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. Coultas also taught at Naropa University.

She moved to New York City in 1994. With Eleni Sikelianos, she worked at the Poetry Project in NYC, edited the Poetry Project Newsletter.

In 2003, she was a visiting poet at Long Island University. She lives in the Bowery.^[2]

Her work has also been published Brooklyn Rail,^[3] Trickhouse, the Denver Review, and in two collections: An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman 1996), and conjunctions 35 "American Poetry: States of the Art" (Fall 2000).^[4]

Awards

• 2004 Norma Farber First Book Award, A Handmade Museum
• Greenwald grant from the Academy of American Poets
• 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist-in-residence.^[5]

Work

• The Bluegrass State. Fascile. two. Winter 2005–2006. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081006060735/http://www.fascicle.com/issue02/poems/coultas1.htm. 2008-10-06.
• The Rat and The Flowerpot. 2001. 1536-5808. Pom2 .
• The Diary of Found Foods . Trickhouse. 2 . Fall 2008.
• Web site: Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two. Poetry Society of America. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080705024427/http://www.poetrysociety.org/winners-ninetyfour_poems.html. 2008-07-05.
• from The Bowery Project. Tool Magazine. 1.

Poetry

• Book: Early Films. Rodent Press. 1996. 978-1-887289-15-3 .
• Book: The Bowery Project. Leroy Chapbook Series. 2003. 978-99909-0-955-5 .
• Book: A Handmade Museum. Coffee House Press. 2003. 978-1-56689-143-1 .
• Book: The marvelous bones of time: excavations and explanations : poetry. Coffee House Press. 2007. 978-1-56689-204-9 .

Anthologies

• Book: Voices of the city: Newark reads poetry 2004. Rosamond S. King. Hanging Loose Press. 2004. 978-1-931236-42-3 .
• Book: Rattapallax. Repossessed Head Press. 2003 .
• Book: An apparent event: a Second Story Books anthology. Mary Burger. 2nd Story Books. 2006 .

External links

• "every other day", Kicking Wind, 19 July 2006
• "Brenda Coultas", PennSound

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brenda Coultas and Rod Smith | Washington DC Poetry Readings.
2. New Writing by Brenda Coultas . How2 Journal. 1. Spring 2002. October 5, 2013.
3. Web site: The Brooklyn Rail - Poetry . 2009-06-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080720050103/http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/poetry/march05/coultas.html . 2008-07-20 .
4. Web site: Brenda Coultas and Rod Smith | Washington DC Poetry Readings.
5. Web site: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - Workspace 2008 - Brenda Coultasl . 2009-06-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106033134/http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/coultas/index.html . 2009-01-06 .