Master Poet Carol Hamilton Featured at Norman Depot
Multiple award winning poet Carol Hamilton will read from two new books: Master of the Theatre: Peter the Great and Lexicography at the Sunday Poetry Reading on May 20 in the Norman Depot, 200 S. Jones. The free reading will begin at 2:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Hamilton’s list of accolades includes Poet Laureate of Oklahoma 1995-97, the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry chapbook Once the Dust in 1992, a Southwest Book Award in 1988 for a children’s novel, The Dawn Seekers and a Cherubim Award for children’s novel, The Mystery of Black Mesa. She has won the Byline Literary Awards for both short story and poetry and has been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. She received the David Ray Poetry Award in 2000 and the 2002 Warren Keith Wright Prize for Poetry.
The list of her publications is extensive. Recent releases include Shots On, Contrapuntal, and poetry chapbook Umberto Eco Lost His Gun, all finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award. She has been recently featured in White Wall, Tulane Review, Connecticut River Review, Caveat Lector (recorded reading online), San Pedro River Review, Crosstimbers, Ellipses, slipstream, Aries, The Bryant Literary, The Rockford Review and Poet Lore.
A writer and storyteller born in Enid, Oklahoma, Hamilton graduated from Midwest City High School, has a BS degree from Phillips University and an MA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma. She taught in the English Department of Rose State College for 10 years, and 7 years on the graduate faculty of the Creative Studies Division of the English Department for the University of Central Oklahoma. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2007.
Second Sunday Poetry Readings are a program of The Performing Arts Studio located in the Norman Depot. Office hours are Monday-Friday from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. For further information about PAS programs phone 405-307-9320. For further information about Carol Hamilton visit www.carolhamilton.org.
Treasure
The northern light of Dutch painters ...
I fell in love with it at 6-years-old.
How it caressed neat tiles,
fabrics, stilled flesh.
Later I lived on the North Sea,
winter light as rare as a warm room.
How the painters must have loved it.
I remember the shock of Greek islands
on a movie screen in December,
so spendthrift with white and color
on a blue sea as we drowned,
day by day, in gray. Little jewels,
these paintings, and no wonder,
for precious commodities, hard found,
diamonds,
pearls,
an illumination on loved things,
these are held dear.
Carol Hamilton
