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Anders Carlson-Wee
Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015.
Carlson-Wee Reading at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH in 2015.
Born (1985-05-18) May 18, 1985 (age 39)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
EducationFairhaven College
Vanderbilt University
GenrePoetry
Notable worksDisease of Kings
The Low Passions
Website
www.anderscarlsonwee.com

Anders Carlson-Wee is an American poet. His first collection, The Low Passions, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019.[1] Norton published his second collection, Disease of Kings, in 2023.[2][3]

Personal life

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Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota[4] to Lutheran pastor parents, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota.[5][6] He is a former professional rollerblader,[7] and has written extensively about dumpster diving,[8] as well as hopping freight trains and traveling the country.[9] He has dyslexia.[10][11]

He has two brothers: poet and filmmaker Kai Carlson-Wee and entrepreneur Olaf Carlson-Wee.

Career

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Carlson-Wee studied at Fairhaven College of Western Washington University before earning his MFA at Vanderbilt University.[12][13]

His poems have been published in various journals and magazines including The Paris Review,[14] Harvard Review,[15] BuzzFeed,[16] The American Poetry Review,[17] Ploughshares,[18] and Virginia Quarterly Review.[19]

Anders is co-director of the poetry film Riding the Highline, which has won numerous prizes at film festivals.[20]

Awards and fellowships

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Publications

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  • Disease of Kings, W. W. Norton & Company, 2023
  • The Low Passions, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
  • Two Headed Boy with Kai Carlson-Wee, Organic Weapon Arts, 2016
  • Mercy Songs with Kai Carlson-Wee, Diode Editions, 2016
  • Dynamite, Bull City Press, 2015

References

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  1. ^ "The Low Passions". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  2. ^ "Disease of Kings". www.wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  3. ^ "Anders Carlson-Wee". Anders Carlson-Wee. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  4. ^ "Anders Carlson-Wee". Poets & Writers. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  5. ^ "Midwestern Gothic – A Literary Journal » Blog Archive » Interview: Anders and Kai Carlson-Wee". Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  6. ^ "Interview with Anders Carlson-Wee". www.shoutoutla.com. 12 June 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  7. ^ "Anders Carlson-Wee". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  8. ^ "An American Disease Anders Carlson-Wee on Dumpster Diving in a Culture of Waste". www.thesunmagazine.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  9. ^ "Slice Magazine | An Interview with Anders Carlson-Wee, by Christopher Locke". Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  10. ^ "The Eye for True". The Rupture. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  11. ^ "Lay It Bare: Joy Baglio Interviews Anders Carlson-Wee". www.thecommononline.org. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  12. ^ Carlson-Wee, Anders (2015-06-24). "Anders Carlson-Wee". www.narrativemagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  13. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts awards fellowship to Vanderbilt MFA student". Vanderbilt University. December 5, 2014. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  14. ^ "The Paris Review, "Hired" by Anders Carlson-Wee". www.theparisreview.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  15. ^ "Harvard Review "The Family" by Anders Carlson-Wee". www.harvardreview.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  16. ^ "BuzzFeed "Trophy" by Anders Carlson-Wee". www.buzzfeednews.com. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  17. ^ "American Poetry Review Sep/Oct 2023 Issue". www.aprweb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  18. ^ "Ploughshares Author Anders Carlson-Wee". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  19. ^ "VQR Author Anders Carlson-Wee". www.vqronline.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  20. ^ Carlson-Wee, Kai (2015-04-07), Riding the Highline, retrieved 2023-01-19
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