Poetry. So much fun you might not notice you are in the presence of a master. These poems are madcap, fierce: no one's bag of tricks is as bottomless as Knox's. "A most inquisitive poet...one who has been faxing by the midnight oil while so many others were dipping their quills into dry sockets. Caroline Knox reminds us how whangy and interesting it all is"--C.D. Wright. Caroline Knox is the winner of the 2005 Maurice English Award and the author of six collections of poetry, most recently HE PAVES THE ROAD WITH IRON BARS (Verse Press, 2004). She has received awards from the NEA, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Poetry magazine.

Author City: Westport, MA USA

Caroline Knox's NINE WORTHIES was published by Wave Books in 2010. QUAKER GUNS (Wave Books, 2008) received a Recommended Reading Award 2009 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. HE PAVES THE ROAD WITH IRON BARS, published by Verse Press in 2004, won the Maurice English Award 2005 for a book by a poet over 50. A BEAKER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS appeared from Verse Press in 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989), and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994). Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry (whose Bess Hokin Prize she has won), TriQuarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Yale Review. Her poems have been in Best American Poetry (1988 and 1994), and on Poetry Daily. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1996, 2006), The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. She was the judge for the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America in Spring 2003, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2003-2004. With Matthea Harvey and Peter Gizzi, she was a judge of the James Laughlin Award 2007.

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