Named a Cave Canem Fellow in 2000, Carolyn Beard Whitlow is a New Formalist who writes lyric, blues, jazz and persona poems. Although not a Slam Poet, she is known for her dynamic readings. While Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Guilford College, a Liberal Arts Quaker College in Greensboro,NC, she has been awarded writing residencies at Yaddo, Soul Mountain and Hedgebrook. Finalist for both the 1991 Barnard New Women Poets Prize and the 2006 Ohio State University Prize in Poetry, her book VANISHED won the 2006 Naomi Long Madgett Prize in Poetry. She published the essay on the Villanelle form entitled "Blues in Black and White" in BEYOND NEW FORMALISM: CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS on POETIC FORM and NARRATIVE. She draws from the same creative well as a fiber artist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F85a8ijYZzc [2]