Carolyn Yalkut

Carolyn Yalkut is a poet and playwright. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Confrontation, Northeast Journal, West Hills Review, Webster Review, Poet and Critic, Festschrift for Elliott Coleman, Tales Magazine, Washington Jewish Week, and The City Collector. Her book, Egocentric and Genteel: Innovation and Tradition in American Journalism, is forthcoming from the University of Missouri Press.

Poetry samples are available online.

DRAMA

Everywoman

• Showcase performance of plays-in-progress, Norman Mailer Writers Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 2010

Big Boy

• Syracuse Civic Center, directed by Peter Moller, 16-25 February 1989
• Broadcast coverage on Cablevision; Eyewitness News (WIXT-TV), The Evening News (WTVH-TV), and WSYR-FM radio
• Lead theatre reviews in the Syracuse New Times, Herald-Journal, and Post-Standard
• New Works Theatre Group, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12-14 November 1990
• Firehouse Theatre, Syracuse NY: Staged readings directed by Mary Earle (1988), Jim Arnold (1986), and William S. Morris (1985)

A Daughter is Not a Father is Not a Lover

• Homewood Theatre, directed by Roberto Arellano, Baltimore, MD, May 1975
• Minor Latham Playhouse, directed by Karen Butler, New York City, April 1974

AWARDS

• Fellow, Norman Mailer Writers Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, January 2011; January 2010
• Invited participant, drama workshop with Bonnie Culver, Norman Mailer Writers Center, August 2009
• Individual Development Award, United University Professors, 2010
• Invited participant, poetry seminar with Sir Christopher Ricks, Mailer Writers Colony, August 2009
• Nuala McGann Drescher Award, one-year research grant, 1993-1994
• Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia, Summer 1986
• Residency, Ucross Foundation Artists’ Colony, Wyoming, Autumn 1983
• Machlachlan Prize for Poetry, 1987 (Judge: David Ignatow)
• First Prize, Academy of American Poets, 1982 (Judge: Reg Saner)