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Paul Carroll

Born: 1927 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1996 in North Carolina

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Paul Carroll lived and worked in Chicago for many years.

Biography: Paul Carroll was a poet and the founder of the Poetry Center of Chicago. He was a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1974, he founded the Program for Writers, the school's graduate program for creative writing. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1992. In 1993, he moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where he continued to write poetry every day until his death.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Paul Carroll on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=paul+carroll


Selected Titles

Literature :
ISBN: 0316488801 OCLC: 14187563

Little, Brown, Boston : ©1987.

  New and selected poems
ISBN: 0916328112 OCLC: 3543491

Yellow Press ; Chicago : ©1978.

  Poems /
ISBN: 094402405X OCLC: 19370384

Spoon River Poetry Press, Peoria, Ill. : 1988.

Postmodern American poetry :
ISBN: 0393310906 OCLC: 28183916

A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets.

The Luke poems /
ISBN: 0695802534 OCLC: 211724

Big Table Publishing Company, Chicago : ©1971.

The poem in its skin /
ISBN: 0695871471 OCLC: 247928380

Big Table Publ, Chicago : 1970.

 

 

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