About Caroline Knox
Caroline Knox (April 27, 1938 – April 24, 2025) was an American poet who resided in Massachusetts. She published six poetry collections, the most recent being Hear Trains (2019), To Drink Boiled Snow (2015), Nine Worthies (2010) and Flemish (2013), Quaker Guns (2008) which 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 (1989), and Sleepers Wake (1994). Her poems have been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, including American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Yale Review. Furthermore, her work has been included in Best American Poetry (1988 and 1994). Her achievements include receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Fund for Poetry, and the Yale/Mellon Visiting Faculty Program. Knox received her A.B. from Radcliffe College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.Browse all poems and texts published on Caroline Knox
