Gathering Light

by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

"Kreiter-Foronda invites her readers to join in an artistic family reunion, bringing together the visual and verbal expressions of creativity which are too often separated in contemporary culture. She has an almost magical ability to become fully immersed in another artist's personal vision, transforming distant fragments of art history into moments of intense awareness." --Donna McKee, Artist and Museum Educator

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2006 to 2008. She holds a B.A. from the University of Mary Washington and M.Ed., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from George Mason University, where she received the first doctorate, an Outstanding Academic Achievement and Service Award, and a Letter of Recognition for Quality Research from the Virginia Educational Research Association for her dissertation, Gathering Light: A Poet’s Approach to Poetry Analysis. In 2007 both universities gave her the Alumna of the Year Award.

She has co-edited three anthologies and published nine books of poetry, including These Flecks of Color: New and Selected Poems and The Embrace, winner of the Art in Literature: The Mary Lynn Kotz Award. She is the recipient of a Council for Basic Education Fellowship, five Virginia Commission for the Arts grants, the Ellen Anderson Award, a Virginia Cultural Laureate Award, a Phoebe first-place award, a Spree first-place award, an Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Award, a Passages North contest award, multiple awards in Pen Women competitions, six Pushcart Prize nominations, and a resolution of appreciation from the Virginia Board of Education for her service as poet laureate.

Her poems appear throughout the United States and abroad in journals and anthologies, such as Prairie Schooner, Nimrod International Journal, Mid-American Review, Best of Literary Journals, Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Poet Lore, Hispanic Culture Review, and World Poetry Yearbook 2015. Two of her poems are featured in art installations at Metro stations as part of the Washington Metropolitan Area, Art in Transit. She currently conducts art-inspired poetry workshops for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Statewide Partners Program. Dr. Kreiter-Foronda also works as an abstract colorist painter and has exhibited her artworks widely in galleries, libraries, and educational settings.

Reviews

[Shawna C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful.

[Shannpalmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

compelling poems, beautiful images