| Show instructor has array rray of literary talent a en rot 1 1 r 1 S O professor Carol Caro Quist O used sed to say I cant can't write poetry Now she not only writes it but last month received for one poem Her Shakespearean sonnet entitled won the grand prize In inthe the 1991 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pen Pen- Poetry Society competition However one award was not enough Last month the Utah State Poetry Society gave Quist the light verse chapbook chapbook chapbook chap- chap book awa award d for her page 18 collection of lively lines Both h her er serious and humorous works have won prizes and publication in Arizona I Idaho aho Ohio Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas Mas- Florida South Dakota New York and and Maryland as well as in Utah Quist has taught English and communications at the West Jordan campus and is presently teaching English and humanities on the Red Red- wood campus She notes that she would like to teach communications communications communications com com- again along with literature and women's histo history y history and literature was my other focus during my masters master's studies Quist explains I grew up reading Mary Roberts Rinehart Dorothy Parker Betty MacDonald Cornelia Otis Skinner Emily Kimbrough Virginia Lederer and so on oni women writers no noone noone noone one else seemed to know about By then Quist said said women's studies d departments were becoming common on on college campuses an and the SQ- SQ so- so called tailed canons of literature were being r recognized cognized as white male dominated While becoming a teaching teaching teaching teach teach- ing assistant in a race gender and culture class dass Quist began researching two books One will concern US U.S. women writers of humor Quist mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- If the late Kenneth Eble can resurrect Kate Chopin maybe I can do likewise for other long Invisible invisible invisible in In- visible women Quist's other book project is Lady o of Letters f based on the journals and correspondence of her grandmother Myrtle Maiben Stewart who was educated d during the new woman era of the late The journal of her year reveals h how w ardently she longed to become someone someone some some- one like a man could Calling herself a migrant reader and writer Quist presently edits The Lariat the League of Utah Writers pub pub- She tutors through the U of U does freelance writing and editing and is on the staff of The Event S a u aY 4 r fr 1 F A l pr 4 Yes G Gw H a w 4 Y 4 t 4 Carol for her lively poetry writes now about the invisible woman |
