Kansas Arts Commission

Dr. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Poet Laureate of Kansas: FY 2009-2012

Dr. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Eligible organizations and schools may apply for a Kansas Arts on Tour Presenter Program grant to support programming with Dr. Mirriam-Goldberg.

For questions, contact the Kansas Arts Commission at 866/433-0688 (toll free) or 785/296-3335, or email .

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., is the 2009-2012 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 is the author or editor of eleven: 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). She recently co-edited, with Marilyn L. Taylor, Denise Low and Walter Bargen, An Endless Skyway: Poetry from the State Poets Laureate (Ice Cube Press). Her other books include 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.

Mirriam-Goldberg's Poet Laureate projects include the following:

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National Endowment for the Arts
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