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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is an American poet, writer and professor, honored as the third Kansas Poet Laureate (2009–2012). A professor at Goddard College a private, liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont. She serves as the coordinator for the Transformative Language Arts track, which she initiated. Enriching people across the United States, Mirriam-Goldberg uses workshops, retreats, and readings to broaden different communities' ideals about spoken, written, and sung word.

Biography
Mirriam-Goldberg was born in New York. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, where she focused on poetry, women's studies, and mythology. She lived south of Lawrence, Kansas with her husband Ken Lassman, a regional writer, and their three children.

As Poet Laureate
Through the Kansas Arts Commission, Mirriam-Goldberg is offering a series of programs, including workshops, lectures, and readings. Additionally, she helped organize "Poet Laureati: A National Convergence of Poets Laureate" which was held in March 2011 at the Spencer Museum of Art on the University of Kansas campus. The program included Ted Kooser (former U.S. Poet Laureate), Jonathan Holden (first Kansas Poet Laureate), herself, and 17 other states' poets laureate.

As Educator
As a professor at Goddard College, Goldberg has participated in initiatives to further the understanding of using language and arts to transform, theater arts, storytelling, drama (etc.)to one's community encouragement and community-building. Mirriam-Goldberg is much like other [female poets] that speak about womanhood and experiences in life that have reflected her hardships with having cancer.

Honors and Awards
Mirriam-Goldberg has published over 50 poems and prose, all monographs, in addition to more than 190 poems published in professional journals.
 * City of Lawrence Phoenix Award
 * Kansas Arts Fellowship in Poetry
 * Rocky Mountain National Park artist-in-residency

Publications

 * Animals in the House: Poems (Topeka, KS: Woodley Memorial Press), 2004. ISBN 0-9393-9135-X
 * Circle of Women Circle of Words: A Project of the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority Resident Services Office (Lawrence, KS: Mammoth Press), 2006.  ISBN 0-9761-7731-5  [a work of poetry by low-income women edited by Mirriam-Goldberg]
 * Landed: New Poetry (Lawrence, KS: Mammoth Publications), 2009. ISBN 0-9800-1023-3  [a CD of her reading her poetry as well as songs co-written with Kelley Hunt and performed by Hunt]
 * Lot's Wife (Topeka, KS: Woodley Press), 2000. ISBN 0-9393-9127-9  [poetry]
 * Reading the Body (Lawrence, KS: Mammoth Press), 2004. [poetry]
 * Sandra Cisneros: Latina Writer and Activist (Springfield, NJ: Enslow), 1998. ISBN 0-7660-1045-7  [biography for a juvenile audience]
 * The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body (North Liberty, IA: Ice Cube Press), 1999. ISBN 9781888160437  [memoir documenting her struggle with breast cancer, community, and ecology; reprinted in 2009]

Collaborative works

 * The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader, Social and Personal Transformation Through the Spoken, Written and Sung Word (Keene, NH: Transformative Language Arts Press), 2007. ISBN 0-9761-7735-8  [with Janet Tallman]
 * To the Stars: Kansas Poets of the Ad Astra Poetry Project (Lawrence, KS: Mammoth Publications), 2009. ISBN 0-9800-1027-6  [edited by Denise Low; Mirriam-Goldberg provided "Ad Astra Poetry Writing Guide: Prompts by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg"]
 * Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life, a Guide for Teens (Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Pub.), 1999. ISBN 1-5754-2060-0  [with Elizabeth Verdick & Darsi Dreyer]