Brenda Coultas is an American
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
.
Life
She was raised in Indiana, often working odd jobs such as welding.
She graduated from
Naropa University, studying with
Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.
Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activ ...
and
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...
. Coultas also taught at
Naropa University.
She moved to
New York City
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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
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.
Her work has also been published ''Brooklyn Rail'', 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).
Awards
* 2004
Norma Farber First Book Award The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of ...
, ''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.
Work
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References
External links
"every other day", ''Kicking Wind'', 19 July 2006"Brenda Coultas", ''PennSound''
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Naropa University alumni
Naropa University faculty
People from Indiana
American women poets
American women academics
21st-century American women