Carolyne Wright's ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in Foreword Review's Book of the Year Awards. She has nine earlier poetry volumes, five books of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali, and a collection of essays; and has received Fulbright, NEA, 4Culture, and Seattle Arts Commission fellowships. After returning to her native Seattle in 2005, Wright has taught for Richard Hugo House; for the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program; and for Antioch University Los Angeles MFA Program. She has been gaining fluency in Brazilian Portuguese in preparation for a return visit to Bahia on an Instituto Sacatar residency fellowship in 2018

Other poems by Carolyne Wright in Verse Daily:
January 8, 2016:   "The Confessions of Eulene" "I eat too many Twinkies...."
September 13, 2011:   "'Mania Klepto'" "Eulene never comes to shoplift..."

Books by Carolyne Wright:

Other poems on the web by Carolyne Wright:
"Lady from Mountains"
Nine poems
Four poems
"Through Bus Windows: Seattle"

Carolyne Wright According to Wikipedia.

About This Dream the World:

"The language of Carolyne Wright's poems is as rich, diverse, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens, their history, turmoil, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage."
—David Axelrod

"Carolyne Wright's poems connect the personal and political and walk the difficult edge of poetic lyricism and social engagement. They are poems that search for 'a language between us' in which personal loss becomes a metaphor for an injured and debilitating world where political violence and conflict keep us from fulfilling ourselves in meaningful ways. For her, our lives are often drifting and 'unfinished' in this world of divisions. Yet while she refuses to pretend that lives of great suffering and sorrow don't exist and aren't costly, she often enacts those complex, particular moments when the oversimplifications of political ideologies run up against the strange power of our individual lives."
—Robert Cording

"Like the first line in the title poem, the haunting poems in Carolyne Wright's wide-ranging collection won't let us go. Beginning with a new sequence of deeply moving elegies about her mute sister, whose presence was kept a secret, these poems grab hold, taking us back through the decades. But this isn't a nostalgic journey; rather, Wright's subjects range from Luna moths to César Vallejo. Deftly employing witty word play in a variety of forms—from acrostics to ghazals to pantoums—this collection interweaves voices and cultures, vividly showing 'this dream the world' and reminding us of poetry's role in bearing witness to what can't, but must, be spoken."
—Holly J. Hughes