Discipline: Literature – poetry

William Carpenter

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Stockton Springs, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1985
William Carpenter is the author of Speaking Fire at Stones (Tilbury House Publishers, 1992); Rain (Northeastern University Press, 1985), winner of the 1985 Morse Poetry Prize; and The Hours of Morning: Poems 1976–79 (University of Virginia Press, 1982). He is a recipient of the Associated Writing Program’s Contemporary Poetry Award, the Samuel French Morse Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. He teaches at the College of the Atlantic in Maine.

Studios

New Jersey

William Carpenter worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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