January 6, 1949 - January 12, 2016
American poet
Author of "Translation of the Gospel Back Into Tongues", "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (for which she won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2009) and "One With Others" (for which she was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010)
Was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1994 - 1999
Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004
Born Carolyn D. Wright