Karen Swenson Explained

Karen Swenson
Birth Date:	29 July 1936
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Alma Mater:	Barnard College New York University

Karen Swenson (born July 29, 1936 New York City) is an American poet and journalist.

Life

She grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and studied at Barnard College and New York University.^[1]

Swenson has been Poet-in-Residence at Skidmore College, the University of Idaho, University of Denver, Clark University, Scripps College and Barnard College. She taught at City College, New York.^[2]

Her work has appeared in The New York Times,^[3] The Beloit Poetry Journal,^[4] Paris Review,^[5] American Poetry Review, "Saturday Review", and "The New Yorker".

Awards

• 1993 National Poetry Series, for The Landlady in Bangkok
• Lannan Residency ^[6]
• Yaddo Residencies

Works

• Book: A daughter's latitude: new & selected poems. Copper Canyon Press. 1999. 978-1-55659-094-8 .
• Book: The landlady in Bangkok. Copper Canyon Press. 1994. 978-1-55659-067-2 .
• Book: A sense of direction. registration. Smith. 1989. 978-0-912292-85-4 .
• Book: East-West: poems. Confluence Press. 1980. 978-0-917652-23-3 .
• Book: An attic of ideals. Doubleday. 1974. 978-0-385-08073-6.

Stories

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=e3BUWILHSDcC&q=Karen+Swenson&pg=PA251. Roaches and Redheads. Travelers' Tales Thailand: True Stories. James O'Reilly . Larry Habegger. Travelers' Tales. 2002. 978-1-885211-75-0 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=gqJe659IGroC&q=Karen+Swenson&pg=PA289 . I Have Lost the Address of my Country . Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry . Hilda Raz . Translator Hilda Raz . University of Nebraska Press . 2001 . 978-0-8032-8972-7 .

Edited

• Book: Cold counsel: women in Old Norse literature and mythology : a collection of essays. Sarah M. Anderson . Karen Swenson. Routledge. 2002. 978-0-8153-1966-5 .

External links

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=uIhM0n05FJMC&q=Karen+Swenson&pg=PA366. Karen Swenson. Marlene D. Allen. Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. Catherine Cucinella. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. 978-0-313-31783-5 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=LkVO9mmfwZYC&q=%22Karen+Swenson%22+poet&pg=PA103. Karen Swenson. Truthtellers of the times: interviews with contemporary women poets. Janet Palmer Mullaney. University of Michigan Press. 1998. 978-0-472-06680-3. registration.
• "Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Karen Swenson, a Poet, Journalist and World Traveler, at Centenary Nov. 15-19"

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Karen Swenson | Academy of American Poets.
2. Web site: New York State Writers Institute - Karen Swenson.
3. News: The New York Times - Search. The New York Times.
4. Web site: S Author Index . 2009-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180222103810/http://www.bpj.org/index/S.html . 2018-02-22 . dead .
5. Web site: Issue 73 . 2009-12-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708231203/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/73 . 2009-07-08 .
6. Web site: Lannan Foundation - Karen Swenson . www.lannan.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041114040237/http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/karen-swenson/ . 2004-11-14.