Julie Carr

Julie Carr (born 1966) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]

She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in 1988, from New York University with an MFA in 1997, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 2006. She teaches at University of Colorado.^[2]

Her work has appeared in Volt, Verse, New American Writing, Parthenon West, Boston Review, Verse, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, and Public Space.^[3]

She is co-publisher of Counterpath Press.^[4]

Awards

• 2009 National Poetry Series
• 2009 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize^[5]
• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]

Works

• "house/boat", Boston Review, April/May 2002
• "from Voc Ed", Tarpaulin Sky Fall Winter 2005
• Mead: An Epithalamion. University of Georgia Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8203-2684-9
• Equivocal. Alice James Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-882295-63-0
• Sarah—of Fragments and Lines. Coffee House Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56689-251-3
• 100 Notes on Violence. Ahsahta Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-934103-11-1
• Contributed to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing. &NOW Books, 2013.^[6]
• Someone Shot My Book. University of Michigan Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-472-03720-9

Anthologies

• "marriage", The Best American Poetry 2007 Simon and Schuster, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2
• Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, Fence Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9771064-8-6

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.^[7]