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Hollis Summers
Occupationnovelist, poet, short story writer and editor
NationalityAmerican


Hollis Summers is an American poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.

Background

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Carter studied at Yale and at Goddard College. After military service and travel abroad, he made his home in Indianapolis, where he has lived since 1969. He worked for many years as an editor and interior designer of textbooks and scholarly works, first with the Bobbs-Merrill Company and later in association with Hackett Publishing Company.

Work

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Carter writes in free verse and in traditional forms. Much of his early work is set in Mississinewa County, an imaginary place that includes the actual Mississinewa River, a tributary of the Wabash River. In recent years, as Carter has published increasingly on the web, his poetry has ranged farther afield.

His first collection, Work, for the Night Is Coming, won the Walt Whitman Award. His second, After the Rain, received the Poets' Prize. His poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and abroad and in the anthologies Twentieth-Century American Poetry,[1] Contemporary American Poetry, [2] and Writing Poems. [3] He has received two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Indiana Governor’s Arts Award.

In 2008 Carter's poem "Heart's Forest," which appeared in issue # 38 of Free Lunch, received the Rosine Offen Memorial Award given by the Free Lunch Arts Alliance.

His poem Prophet Township, which first appeared in the Valparaiso Poetry Review, was selected as one of the best poems published online during 2007. It is included in the print anthology Best of the Web 2008[4] published by Dzanc Books.

Carter’s tanka sequence, “A Country Visit,” first published in Simply Haiku, was selected for Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka.[5] published in 2009 by Modern English Tanka Press.

Bibliography

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Books

Early Warning. Daleville, Indiana: Barnwood Press, 1979.

City Limit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.

"Brighten the Corner." Garden City: Doubleday, 1952.

"Teach You a Lesson." By Summers and James F. Rourke, as Jim Hollis. New York: Harper, 1955.

"The Case of the Bludgeoned Teacher." By Summers and James F. Rourke, as Jim Hollis. New York: Avon, 1955.

The Weather of February. New York: Harper, 1957.

The Walk Near Athens. New York: Harper, 1959.

Someone Else: Sixteen Poems About Other Children". Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1962.

"Seven Occasions." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1964.

"The Peddler and Other Domestic Matters." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1967.

"The Day After Sunday." New York, Evanston & London: Harper, 1968.

"Sit Opposite Each Other." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1970.

Start from Home. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1972.

"The Garden." New York: Harper, 1972.

"How They Chose the Dead." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 1973.

"Occupant Please Forward." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers U P, 1976.

"Standing Room: Stories." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 1984.

"Other Concerns & Brother Clark." Athens: Ohio U P, 1988.

"Kentucky Story: A Collection of Short Stories." Edited by Summers. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1954. Literature: An Introduction, edited by Summers and Edgar Whan (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960). Discussions of the Short Story, edited by Summers (Boston: Heath, 1963). PERIODICAL PUBLICATION (Poetry) "The Flicker," Beloit Poetry Journal, 5 (Spring 1955): 117. "Committee Meeting," Sewanee Review, 64 (Autumn 1956): 606. "Mexico Picnic, October 31," Saturday Review, 40 (12 January 1957): 54. "Lexington, Kentucky," American Weave, 100 (Spring 1961): 4-6. "Seven Occasions for Song," Hudson Review, 15 (Spring 1962): 86-87. "Title: To Be Supplied," Western Humanities Review, 17 (Winter 1963): 64. "Waiting Bench with Figure," Midwest Quarterly, 7 (Autumn 1964): 96. "The Gift," New Mexico Quarterly, 25 (Summer 1965): 137. "Snapshots of the Four Grandchildren," Atlantic, 217 (May 1966): 113. "Mercy," English Record, 19 (February 1969): 28. "Grace Before Calling the Nursing Home and the Jail," Southern Poetry Review, 16 (1977): 83. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS (Fiction) "Mister Joseph Potts," Paris Review, 8 (Spring 1955): 107-121. "The Prayer Meeting," Sewanee Review, 64 (Winter 1956): 110-122. "Cafe Nore," Epoch, 8 (Fall 1957): 153-166. "If You Don't Go Out the Way You Came In," Colorado Quarterly, 9 (Summer 1960): 69-83. "The Third Ocean," Hudson Review, 22 (Summer 1969): 232-252. PERIODICAL PUBLICATION (Nonfiction) "Rejections and Acceptances from Editors and Other Readers: Jesse Stuart's `Dawn of a Remembered Spring' Remembered," Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 3 (Spring 1977): 1-5.

Relevant studies

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  • Deines, Timothy J. The Gleaning: Regionalism, Form, and Theme in the Poetry of Jared Carter.” Master’s thesis, Cleveland State University, 1998.
  • “Jared Carter.” Contemporary Authors . Vol. 145, pp. 75-76. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.
  • Ponick, T. L., and Ponick, F. S. “Jared Carter.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 282, pp. 31-40. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003.

Notes

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  1. ^ New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Compiled by Dana Gioia, David Mason, and Meg Schoerke. ISBN 0-07-240019-6 ISBN 978-0-07-240019-9.
  2. ^ New York: Penguin Academics Series, 2005. Compiled by R. S. Gwynn and April Lindner. ISBN 0-321-18282-0 ISBN 978-0-321-18282-1.
  3. ^ New York: Longman, 2004. Compiled by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. ISBN 0-321-09423-9 ISBN 978-0-321-09423-0.
  4. ^ Westland, Michigan: Dzanc Books, 2008. Best of the Web Series. Compiled by series editor Nathan Leslie and guest editor Steve Almond. ISBN 978-0-9793123-4-2 ISBN 0-9793123-4-5.
  5. ^ Baltimore: Modern English Tanka Press, 2009. Volume 2, edited by M. Kei, Sanford Goldstein et al. ISBN 10:1935398083 ISBN 13:978-1935398080.
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