Carrie Meadows
Author Carrie Meadows visited Lee University’s Intro to Writing Poetry class over Zoom for a reading organized by Dr. William Woolfitt, associate professor of creative writing at Lee.
“We are so glad that Carrie Meadows shared with us her love of poetry, her research on self-taught artists, and her poems about the complicated history of the South,” said Dr. Woolfitt.
Ms. Meadows, a poet, professor, and freelance writer, began the reading with “Looking Over the Edge.” She shared that certain images and objects inspire her poems, such as a photo of the sculpture “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly” by James Hampton.
The session concluded with “Wade in the Water” before Ms. Meadows offered a chance for the poetry students to comment and ask questions.
Dr. Woolfitt’s students had read Ms. Meadows’ book “Speak, My Tongue,” for the class this fall.
“Having Carrie Meadows share her thought process throughout the creation of her poetry was enlightening,” said Jacob Neilan, a student in Dr. Woolfitt’s poetry class. “Simply getting a glimpse into the innerworkings of such a fascinating and thought-provoking poet made her reading highly informative.”
Ms. Meadows is the author of the chapbook “Slingshot Catapult,” and more than 30 of her individual poems have appeared in publications such as Prairie Schooner, North American Review, and The Common: Dispatches. Other publication credits include fiction in Whitefish Review and Fifth Wednesday Journal, hypertext in New River Journal and CElla's Roundtrip, and book reviews in Smartish Pace, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and Corduroy Books.
Ms. Meadows won the Academy of American Poets Poetry Society of Virginia Prize, the Plainsongs Poetry Prize, and the MFA scholarship in poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2008, in addition to other awards and placements over her writing career. Most recently, her poetry was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2018.
Ms. Meadows currently serves as an associate lecturer in creative and professional writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Virginia Tech.
To learn more about Ms. Meadows, visit carriemeadows.com/.
For more information about Lee’s creative writing program, contact 614-8210 or email languageliterature@leeuniversity.edu