Dr. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Kansas Poet Laureate: FY 2010, 2011
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., is the 2009-2011 Poet
Laureate of Kansas. Her career as a poet, fiction and non-fiction
writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator focuses on how literature can
help us live more meaningful and vibrant lives. As founder of
Transformative Language Arts, she also values social and personal
transformation through the spoken, written and sung word.
Mirriam-Goldberg has three books forthcoming in 2009:
Landed (poetry, Mammoth Publications), The Sky Begins At Your Feet (a
memoir on cancer, community and ecology, Ice Cube Press), and “I
Dwell in Possibility”: Writing and Living with Serious Illness
(anthology, Turning Point of Kansas City, which she is editing). The
author of seven other books, including three collections of poetry, the
award-winning Write Where You Are, and editor of The Power of Words: A
Transformative Language Arts Reader, her poetry and prose has been
published in over 50 literary journals and anthologies. Founder of
Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, where she teaches in the
low-residency Individualized MA Program, Mirriam-Goldberg has extensive
experience facilitating writing workshops for many populations, and
giving readings and presentations. She also offers writing and singing
workshops and performances with singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt through
their business, Brave Voice.
Mirriam-Goldberg received her Ph.D. and MA from the
University of Kansas (poetry, women's studies, mythology), and she is
certified in grassroots organizing from the Midwest Academy, and poetry
therapy from the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy. She is
the recipient of Kansas Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Rocky Mountain
National Park artist-in-residency, the City of Lawrence Phoenix Award,
and other honors.
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