Thursday, March 20, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
Michelle Brouillette/KANSAN
Carolyn Kizer, 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, reads a selection from one of her books. Kizer read her poems about women and their roles in society to faculty and students in Wescoe Hall yesterday.
Feminist poet satirizes women's roles in society
By Tom Farmer
Staff writer
A stuffy, cramped room may not be the most appropriate setting for a Pulleritz Prize-winning诗 to read her works, but Carolyn Kizave it a shot.
Kizer, the 1885 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, yesterday read several of her poems to a crowded room of listeners in 4023 Wesco Hall.
"Whoever invented a classroom with sealed windows deserves the anti-Pulitzer." Kizer said. "I'll try to read some cool poems."
rter reading, which was arranged last weekend when it was discovered she would be in Lawrence to see a painting exhibit, was sponsored by the department of English and women's studies program.
Most of the poems she selected to read were about women and her interpretation of their roles in society. Kizer described herself as a premature feminist who had seen a need for change but who hardly recognized it in herself at the time.
Her poetry satirizes the roles of women. The progress women have made in attempting to gain equal rights with men is evident in many ways, she said.
"I've had friends tell me they went all the way through college without reading a
single woman writer", Kizer said, "I think that's hardly the case now."
In addition to issues important especially to women, she writes about family, children, mythology, politics and international affairs
Kizer said her generation may have had something to do with her expression of opinion through poetry.
"My generation wrote anti-Vietnam poems," she said. "We felt an obligation to speak truth to power."
Kizer's need to be involved is satisfied in such groups as Amnesty International and Planned Parenthood.
She attributed her ability to write poetry to her parents, who, she said, were creative people.
Michael Johnson, chairman of the department of English, said he had read several of Kizer's poems and was pleased she was able to do the reading.
Kizer, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., had her first collection of poetry published in 1959. She published "Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems," in 1971 and "Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women," in 1984.
She won a Pulitzer Prize last year for her book titled "Yin," a collection of poems about women.
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