Carole Glasser Langille is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 poet, the author of three books of poetry.

Life

Carole Langille is originally from New York City

New York City

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, where she studied with the poets John Ashbery

John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

 and Carolyn Forche

Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...

. She has taught at The Humber School for Writing Summer Program, Maritime Writer's Workshop, the Community of Writers in Tatamagouche, and at Women's Words the University of Alberta. She has also taught courses called “Creative Writing” at Mount Saint Vincent University, “Writing for the Arts” at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She currently teaches Creative Writing: Poetry at Dalhousie University.

Several selections from Carole Langille's most recently published book of poetry, Late In A Slow Time, have been adapted to music by renowned Canadian composer Chan Ka Nin

Chan Ka Nin

Chan Ka Nin is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned write works for such ensembles as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra,...

. The production, narrated by Barbara Budd, debuted at the 2006 Sound Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland and is on Duo Concertante's CD Wild Bird (October 2010)..

She has received Canada Council

Canada Council

The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...

 Grants for poetry, non-fiction and fiction as well as Nova Scotia Cultural Arts grants for poetry and fiction. Her work has been nominated for the Governor General's Award

Governor General's Award

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...

 and the Atlantic Poetry Prize

Atlantic Poetry Prize

The Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...

. Her fourth book of poetry, Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems, will be out in 2012.

Carole Langille lives in Black Point, Nova Scotia

Black Point, Nova Scotia

Black Point is a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.Black Point is the closest community in the Ten Beaches area to Metropolitan Halifax, just 30 minutes away, on Highway 3....

with her family.

Awards & Recognition

• When I Always Wanted Something, long listed for the 2009 ReLit Award for short fiction, 2009 .
• In Cannon Cave: Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1997; Atlantic Poetry Prize finalist, 1998
• CBC Literary Awards, finalist, 1997.
• Where the Wind Sleeps: Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice, 1996.
• MacDowell Fellowship, 1986.

Critical Observations

Poetry

• Late in a Slow Time. (Mansfield Press, 2003).
• In Cannon Cave. (Brick Books, 1997).
• All That Glitters in Water. (New Poetry Series, Baltimore, 1990).

Children

• Where the Wind Sleeps. (Roseway Publishing, 1996).
• Interview with a Stick Collector. ( Roseway Publishing, 2004).

Anthology

• In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. (Raincoast Books 2005).
• Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada. (Gooselane 2002).
• Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway 1999).
• Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of ‘93. (Samurai Press, 1993).
• Vintage'92. (Sono Nis Press, 1993).
• Blood to Remember: American Poets on Holocaust. (Texas University Press, 1991).

External Links

• http://www.writers.ns.ca/writers/L/langillecarole.html
• http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/langille/index.htm
• http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/langille.htm
• http://english.dal.ca/Programs/Creative%20Writing/Instructors/Carole_Langille.php