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Carolyn Zaikowski is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, experimental hybrid writer, activist, and death doula.[1] [2] [3] [4] She is the 2025-2027 Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts [5][6] and the author of the experimental prose/poetry novel In a Dream, I Dance By Myself, and I Collapse, originally the winner of the Mainline Contest at Civil Coping Mechanisms and published in 2016.[7] [8] [9]
Zaikowski's work in various genres has appeared in Washington Post, Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, West Branch, Huffington Post, Dusie, The Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.[10]
Background and writing
[edit]Zaikowski was born in the Boston area and lives in Western Massachusetts. She studied Psychology and Gender Studies at UMASS Boston and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Zaikowski worked as a trainer in English and Democracy Studies in Kolkata, India's red light districts and in safehouses teaching teenage political exiles at the Thai-Burma border.[11][12]
Zaikowski has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and has both written and been cited widely regarding the politics of disability [13] [14][15] [16][17][18][19]. Her critical literary theory on "traumatized bodies of text" and the concept of the "reader-witness"[20] [21] [22][23] has been influential in the conversation around using fragmented or shattered textual forms and syntax to represent and convey personal and political trauma narratives. [24][25][26][27][28] [29]
External Links
[edit]Carolyn Zaikowski at Poets & Writers
References
[edit]- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski Bio".
- ^ "This is Getting Old — Dishing with a Death Doula".
- ^ "Holding space for death, and finding meaning in it".
- ^ "It's All Finger-Pointing at the Moon: A Conversation with Carolyn Zaikowski". 23 October 2017.
- ^ "From Carolyn to Carolyn: Easthampton to swear in new poet laureate". 25 April 2025.
- ^ "Megan Zinn w/ Carolyn Zaikowski, new poet laureate of Easthampton".
- ^ "In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse".
- ^ "It's All Finger-Pointing at the Moon: A Conversation with Carolyn Zaikowski". 23 October 2017.
- ^ "Meet the Writer: Carolyn Zaikowski". 22 February 2016.
- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski Publications".
- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski Bio".
- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski interview by Michael T. Fournier - Razorcake".
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/03/canada-is-a-progressive-immigration-policy-dream-unless-you-have-a-disability/
- ^ file:///C:/Users/carol/Downloads/JESP%20-%2014-1.pdf
- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski, Author at Everyday Feminism".
- ^ "Carolyn Zaikowski | HuffPost".
- ^ Klees, Steven (30 October 2020). The Conscience of a Progressive. John Hunt. ISBN 978-1-78904-497-3.
- ^ Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.
- ^ "Disability Justice".
- ^ "Detail - OpenURL Connection - EBSCO".
- ^ http://nobleworld.biz/images/Zaikowski.pdf
- ^ "J/J hastain's Interview with Carolyn Zaikowski". 2 December 2013.
- ^ "It's All Finger-Pointing at the Moon: A Conversation with Carolyn Zaikowski". 23 October 2017.
- ^ Ioanes, Anna (2016). "Shock and Consent in a Feminist Avant-Garde: Kathleen Hanna Reads Kathy Acker". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 42: 175–197. doi:10.1086/686757.
- ^ file:///C:/Users/carol/Downloads/Ioanes_Anna_2015.pdf
- ^ Stevanović, Natalija (2020). "Gertrude and Dido – Traumatized Female Characters in Shakespeare's and Marlowe's Plays". Philologia Mediana. 12 (12). doi:10.46630/phm.12.2020.32.
- ^ Beyad, Maryam; Salami, Ismail (25 November 2015). Fundamental Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Gender, Psychology and Politics. Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-4438-8621-5.
- ^ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151189831.pdf
- ^ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/151189831.pdf