Anders Carlson-Wee is an American poet. His first collection, ''The Low Passions'', was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Norton published his second collection, ''Disease of Kings'', in 2023.

Personal life

Carlson-Wee was born in

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pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is a former professional rollerblader, and has written extensively about dumpster diving, as well as hopping freight trains and traveling the country. He has

dyslexia Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...

. He has two brothers: poet and filmmaker

Kai Carlson-Wee Kai Carlson-Wee is an American poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection RAIL, published by BOA Editions in 2018. He is a Jones Lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University. Biography Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapol ...

and entrepreneur Olaf Carlson-Wee.

Career

Carlson-Wee studied at

Fairhaven College Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies is an interdisciplinary liberal arts college at Western Washington University. Instead of completing the general education requirements at Western, students take interdisciplinary classes at Fairhaven ...

of Western Washington University before earning his MFA at

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. His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

,'' '' Harvard Review'', ''

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, The American Poetry Review'', ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ...

'', and ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion"'' ...

''. Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals.

Awards and fellowships

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

Fellowship * Poetry International Prize * McKnight Artist Fellowship *

Frost Place The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. ...

Chapbook Prize

Publications

* ''Disease of Kings,'' W. W. Norton & Company, 2023 * ''The Low Passions,'' W. W. Norton & Company, 2019 * ''Two Headed Boy'' with Kai Carlson-Wee, Organic Weapon Arts, 2016 * ''Mercy Songs'' with Kai Carlson-Wee, Diode Editions, 2016 * ''Dynamite,'' Bull City Press, 2015

References

External links

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