POET

Carol Frost (1948 - )

BIOGRAPHY

Carol Frost is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000), The Queen’s Desertion (2006), and a chapbook, The Salt Lesson (1976). She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won several Pushcart Prizes.

Her poems often make references to the book of Genesis and literary texts such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest; she writes of the human body, and her poems are rich with the acutely imagined objects of the natural world—whether found off the coast of Florida or in a beehive. In the Women’s Review of Books, Ann Killough noted of Frost’s 2003 collection I Will Say Beauty that Frost seems “to be attempting a real, full-throttle encounter with the natural world itself, rather than using it primarily as a vehicle for metaphor, as in many traditions.” Of her 10th collection, The Queen’s Desertion, another reviewer in the Women’s Review of Books noted the poems’ “many and protean layers of observation.”

Frost has taught at Hartwick College, Washington University, and Wichita State University; she has had several teaching residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and was a visiting poet at University of Wollongon, Australia. She founded and for 15 years directed the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College. At Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, she directs the Winter with the Writers program, a festival of the literary arts.