Julie Carr

Julie Carr is an American poet.

Life
She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in 1988, from New York University with an M.F.A. in 1997, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 2006. She teaches at University of Colorado.

Her work has appeared in Volt, Verse, New American Writing, Parthenon West, Boston Review, Verse, Volt, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, and Public Space.

She is co-publisher of Counterpath Press.

Recognition

 * 2009 National Poetry Series
 * 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Publications

 * Sarah — of Fragments and Lines. Coffee House Press, 2010, ISBN 9781566892513
 * 100 Notes on Violence. Ahsahta Press, 2010, ISBN 9781934103111
 * Equivocal. Alice James Books, 2007, ISBN 9781882295630
 * Mead: An Epithalamion. University of Georgia Press, 2004, ISBN 9780820326849

Anthologies

 * "marriage", The Best American Poetry 2007 Simon and Schuster, 2007, ISBN 9780743299732
 * Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, Fence Books, 2007, ISBN 9780977106486

Reviews
"In her first book, Mead: an Epithalamion (2004), Julie Carr employed marriage as both a theme and as the starting point for her poetic inquiries into relation and interconnection. Her second book, Equivocal (2007), goes a step farther in its scope, exploring specifically the roles and bonds of mother and child, and of child-becoming-mother, as well as opening into questions of family, history, and identity. In this investigation, Carr seeks to confront issues of an individual’s responsibility to others, whether they be a child, parent, spouse, or the world itself."