News at Eleven: Born and raised in Spokane, [Carolyn] Kizer

studied under Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington in the 1950s; other Roethke students of that era included poets Jack Gilbert, Richard Hugo and David Wagoner (the tart-tongued Kizer once called her fellow male poets "a nest of singing chauvinists.") Divorced from Stimson Bullitt, mother of three children, Kizer wrote poems that were brilliant formal compositions, but their intimate knowledge of a woman's predicament blazed through. Portions of her poem "Pro Femina" crystallized feminist discontent:

from Seattle Times: Poetry Northwest journal revived at Everett Community College
then Poetry Northwest: On Kizer: "Her Own Woman"

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