Carol Potter

Carol Potter grew up on a dairy farm in NW Connecticut; she's a Vermont resident, formerly of Los Angeles after years in Western Massachusetts-hence the variety of landscapes and creatures in these pages. Along with the Pacific Coast Poetry Series award from Beyond Baroque, she received a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council in 2019, and was awarded the 2014 FIELD Poetry Prize for her book, Some Slow Bees , and the 1998 Cleveland State Poetry Center award as well as The Balcones Award...See more

Carol Potter grew up on a dairy farm in NW Connecticut; she's a Vermont resident, formerly of Los Angeles after years in Western Massachusetts-hence the variety of landscapes and creatures in these pages. Along with the Pacific Coast Poetry Series award from Beyond Baroque, she received a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council in 2019, and was awarded the 2014 FIELD Poetry Prize for her book, Some Slow Bees , and the 1998 Cleveland State Poetry Center award as well as The Balcones Award for Short History of Pets. Other awards include a Pushcart Award and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Fundaci--n Valpara'so, and Millay Colony of the Arts. Publications include poems in The American Poetry Review , Poetry , Green Mountains Review , Hotel Amerika , Sinister Wisdom , The Kenyon Review , Hayden's Ferry Review . Potter teaches for Antioch University's Low-Residency MFA Program in Los Angeles and she also conducts private poetry workshops. See less