Carol Frost was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, and as a child spent a year in her mother’s hometown of Vienna, so German was the first language she spoke. She studied at the Sorbonne and earned degrees from SUNY Oneonta and Syracuse University. The author of eleven previous books of poetry, most recently
Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences and
Honeycomb, she is the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. New poems appear in
Gettysburg Review and
Plume.
Shi Cheng Light does not wake the lion, so deeply still is she, drowned in the valley. I tried to imagine the eels and carp nudging her stone flanks, the five gates to the darkened heart. And then I thought … Continue reading →