Carolyn Ashley Kizer (December 10, 1925 – October 9, 2014) was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
47-1005: Kizer is a Jewish surname from the Netherlands and Ukraine. The surname is derived from the inhabitants of the village of Kizia, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Notable people with the surname include: Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014), American poet DeShone Kizer (born 1996), American football player Kenneth Kizer , American businessman Lynetta Kizer (born 1990), American basketball player Noble Kizer (1900–1940), American football and basketball player Rayshaun Kizer (born 1985), American football player References [ edit ] ^ "KIZER – kizer meaning – Jewish Genealogy" . www.hebrewsurnames.com . ^ "Kizer Name Meaning & Kizer Family History at Ancestry.com®" . www.ancestry.com . ^ "Kizer Surname Origin, Meaning & Last Name History" . forebears.io . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
94-405: A coeducational institution in 1968. Prior to this transition, there were discussions about relocating the school and merging it with Princeton University , but the administration opted to remain independent. In 2010, Lawrence V. "Larry" Ray, born Lawrence Grecco (then 50), resided in the on-campus apartment of his daughter, Talia Ray. Sarah Lawrence College later told New York magazine that it
141-525: A graduate at both Columbia University (1945–46) and the University of Washington (1946–47). She then moved back to Washington state, and in 1946 married Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney from a wealthy and influential Seattle family, with whom she had three children; Fred Nemo, Jill Bullitt , and Ashley Bullitt. Her husband was the son of Dorothy Bullitt , who founded the Bullitt Foundation and
188-522: A humorist, author, and playwright, studied theater at Sarah Lawrence. Peter Gould , writer and producer of Breaking Bad , attended Sarah Lawrence. Lucian Kahn , singer/guitarist of the band Schmekel and game designer of Visigoths vs. Mall Goths , attended and graduated from Sarah Lawrence. Alumni involved in politics include Amanda Burden , city planning director for New York City; Sharon Hom , director of Human Rights in China ; and two former members of
235-460: A pattern that it retains to the present. Sarah Lawrence was the first liberal arts college in the United States to incorporate a rigorous approach to the arts with the principles of progressive education , focusing on the primacy of teaching and the concentration of curricular efforts on individual needs. Harold Taylor , President of Sarah Lawrence College from 1945 to 1959, greatly influenced
282-1108: A place of alibi for the 100 or so South Bronx residents who were brought to the 41st Precinct for questioning about the murders of the two rookie officers at the film's post-opening credits start. Notable actors include Jane Alexander , Sigourney Weaver , Larisa Oleynik , Cary Elwes , Sam Robards , Joanne Woodward , Téa Leoni , Golden Brooks , Eric Mabius , Melora Hardin , Andrew Lawton , Yancy Butler , Holly Robinson Peete , Robin Givens , Julianna Margulies , Lauren Holly , Tovah Feldshuh , Kyra Sedgwick , Elisabeth Röhm , Guinevere Turner , Merritt Wever, Jill Clayburgh and Alice Pearce . Carrie Fisher attended Sarah Lawrence, but left prior to graduating to begin filming Star Wars . Musicians include Yoko Ono , JD Samson , Max Bemis , Lesley Gore , Carly Simon , jazz singer Stacey Kent , Slothrust , and Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo . Win Butler of Arcade Fire attended Sarah Lawrence but left after his first year to move to Canada. Dylan Brody ,
329-701: A pretty good approximation of how he appeared to that stranger, his child". At times, she related, her father gave her the same "viscera-shriveling" voice she heard him use later on "members of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other villains of the 1950s, to even more devastating effect", and, she added, "I almost forgave him." After graduating from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, she went on to get her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College (where she studied comparative mythologies with Joseph Campbell ) in 1945 and study as
376-414: A sit-in supporting improved wages and safer working conditions for the college's recently unionized facilities workers. For many years, the college has been considered as being at the vanguard of the gay rights movement and many other progressive causes. Much of the 42-acre (17 ha) Sarah Lawrence campus was originally a part of the estate of the college's founder, William Van Duzer Lawrence , though
423-560: A test optional school. Those accepted that submitted test scores had an average 1360 SAT score (15% submitting scores) or average 31 ACT score (6% submitting scores). Political activism has played a crucial role in forming the spirit of the Sarah Lawrence community since the early years of the college. As early as 1938, students were volunteering in working-class sections of Yonkers, New York to help bring equality and educational opportunities to poor and minority citizens, and
470-517: A test-optional policy. On June 19, 2007, following a meeting of the Annapolis Group , which represents over 100 liberal arts colleges , Sarah Lawrence announced that it would join others who had previously signed the letter to college presidents asking them not to participate in the "reputation survey" section of the U.S. News & World Report survey (this section comprises 25% of the ranking). Despite this public stance opposing these rankings,
517-523: Is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York . Originally a women's college, Sarah Lawrence became coeducational in 1968. Sarah Lawrence College was established in 1926 by the real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence. The college was originally intended to provide instruction in
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#1733085117534564-590: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carolyn Kizer According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, "Kizer reach[ed] into mythology in poems like Semele Recycled ; into politics, into feminism, especially in her series of poems called "Pro Femina"; into science, the natural world, music, and translations and commentaries on Japanese and Chinese literatures". Kizer
611-442: Is set at fictional Benton College, which some saw as modeled on Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence alums who have entered the entertainment industry include film directors J. J. Abrams , Brian De Palma , Jordan Peele , producer Joshua D. Maurer , Laura Bickford, news personality Barbara Walters , and TV writer and author Noah Hawley . It was also referenced in the 1981 crime drama movie Fort Apache, The Bronx as
658-564: Is the large Wrexham house, also in the Tudor style, which the college purchased from the government of Rwanda in 2004; this building, once home to the Rwandan consul, has been renovated and is used for various postgraduate programs. At the opposite end of the campus stands the Science and Mathematics Center, completed in 1994. The "Old dorms" refer to four original purpose-built student housing structures to
705-596: The Communist Party , and were called before the Jenner Committee. Since that time, activism has played a central role in student life, with movements for civil rights and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and for student and faculty diversity in the 1980s. Also in the 1960s, students established an Upward Bound program for students from lower-income and poverty areas to prepare for college. Theatre Outreach,
752-670: The King Broadcasting Company . In 1954 she enrolled in a creative writing workshop run by poet Theodore Roethke . "Kizer had three small kids, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough money to get by and more than enough talent and determination. And although one of her poems had been published in The New Yorker when she was 17, she remembers that she needed a nudge from Roethke to get serious." Her marriage to Bullitt ended in divorce in 1954. In 1959, she helped found Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965. She
799-475: The United States House of Representatives : Democrat and President Barack Obama 's former Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel ; and former Republican Congresswoman Sue W. Kelly . Vera Wang , fashion designer and former Vogue editor, and Paul Johnson Calderon , television personality and fashion journalist, attended Sarah Lawrence. Alice Walker , the author of The Color Purple ,
846-521: The college admissions process , gained national prominence due in part to the March 11, 2007, Washington Post article "The Cost of Bucking College Rankings" by Michele Tolela Myers, a former president of Sarah Lawrence College. As Sarah Lawrence College dropped its SAT test score submission requirement for its undergraduate applicants in 2003, thus joining the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission ,
893-608: The surname Kizer . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kizer&oldid=1176254675 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of Ukrainian origin Ukrainian-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
940-701: The 2019 edition ranked Sarah Lawrence tied for the 65th best liberal arts college in the nation. In 2022, Forbes rated it 467th overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking, which includes 660 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges. That same year, Washington Monthly rankings ranked Sarah Lawrence 155th in the liberal arts college category. In 2024, Sarah Lawrence accepted 49.9% of undergraduate applicants, with admission standards considered exceptional, applicant competition considered average, and with those admitted having an average 3.75 high school GPA . The college does not require submission of standardized test scores, Sarah Lawrence being
987-782: The Child Development Institute, the Empowering Teachers Program , the Community Writers program, the Office of Community Partnership, and the Fulbright High School Writers Program are among the many programs founded since the 1970s to provide services to the larger community. In the late 1980s, students occupied Westlands, the main administrative building for the campus, in a sit-in for wider diversity. Students occupied Westlands again in 2016, in
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#17330851175341034-506: The English Tudor architectural style found on most of the older buildings in the area, with thick plaster walls, hardwood floors, and leaded windows (since replaced with more energy-efficient double-pane windows). MacCracken, built a few years later than the other three, is situated to the south of Dudley Lawrence. The original elegant living rooms that were found in each building, excepting MacCracken, are now used as classrooms. Designed by
1081-524: The N.E.A. for the following year. In the 1970s and 1980s, she held appointments as poet-in-residence or lecturer at universities across the country including Columbia , Stanford , Princeton , San Jose State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country, as well as in Dublin , Ireland , and Paris . Kizer
1128-658: The Sarah Lawrence College War Board, organized by students in the fall of 1942, sought to aid troops fighting in World War II . During a time when the college's enrollment consisted of only 293 students, 204 signed up as volunteers during the first week of the War Board. During the so-called McCarthy Years , a number of Sarah Lawrence's faculty members were accused by the American Legion of being sympathetic to
1175-420: The arts and humanities for women. A major component of the college's early curriculum was "productive leisure", wherein students were required to work for eight hours weekly in such fields as modeling, shorthand, typewriting, applying makeup, and gardening. Its pedagogy combined independent research projects which were individually supervised by the teaching faculty, and seminars with low student-to-faculty ratio,
1222-491: The buildings' primary stairwells are found. With the exception of the large apartments in Rothschild, these dorms typically house first-year students. The Mead Way Houses are the eight former private homes that stand along the steep hill of Mead Way on the college's eastern end. The two southernmost houses, Robinson and Swinford, are occupied by administrative offices and the studio of WSLC, the campus internet radio station, while
1269-720: The college announced that it would seek membership as a Division III member of the NCAA . The college began competing as a full member of Division III in the 2015–16 academic year after receiving a waiver to the required four-year 'provisional' period. The college left the Hudson Valley conference after the 2013–14 season and joined the Skyline Conference beginning with the 2014–15 season. The Skyline Conference contains several schools including SUNY Purchase and Yeshiva University which have played against Sarah Lawrence regularly over
1316-646: The college are fine art photographer Joel Sternfeld , poet Suzanne Gardinier , novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet , novelist William Melvin Kelley , novelist Tao Lin , poet Marie Howe , film historians Gilberto Perez and Malcolm Turvey , puppet-theatre artist Dan Hurlin , dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner , Jewish historian Glenn Dynner , philosopher Michael Peter Davis , and economist Franklin Delano Roosevelt III . In 2005, current faculty member Eduardo Lago won
1363-514: The college at the beginning of his career. Argentinian choreographer Anabella Lenzu, work in New York City, is an adjunct professor teaching modern, ballet, and dance history. Rose Anne Thom taught dance history, Labanotation and pedagogy for both undergraduate and graduate students. Randall Jarrell taught at Sarah Lawrence College following military service in World War II . Jarrell's 1954 novel Pictures from an Institution , an academic satire,
1410-457: The college completed construction of a modern visual arts facility, the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Visual Arts Center, with sleek architecture and environmentally friendly aspects which earned the college national press attention. Just down the road is Hill House, a six-story apartment building purchased by the college in the late 1990s that now lodges students. Across the street from Hill House
1457-408: The college does not have SAT data to send to U.S. News for its national survey. Of this decision, Myers states, "We are a writing-intensive school, and the information produced by SAT scores added little to our ability to predict how a student would do at our college; it did, however, do much to bias admission in favor of those who could afford expensive coaching sessions." At the time, Sarah Lawrence
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1504-481: The college has more than doubled its size since Lawrence bequeathed his estate to the college in 1926. The terrain is characterized by dramatic outcroppings of exposed bedrock shaded by large oak and elm trees. Many of the older buildings are in the Tudor Revival architecture style that was popular in the area during the early 20th century, and many of the college's newer buildings attempt an updated interpretation of
1551-482: The college. Taylor was elected president at age 30, maintained a friendship with the educational philosopher John Dewey , and worked to employ the Dewey method at Sarah Lawrence. Taylor spent much of his career calling for educational reform in the United States, using the success of Sarah Lawrence as an example of the possibilities of a personalized, modern, and rigorous approach to higher education . Sarah Lawrence became
1598-504: The immediate north of Westlands in what is frequently referred to as the "central campus". Dudley Lawrence, one of the sons of William and Sarah Lawrence, achieved the remarkable feat of constructing three of these buildings in one year (1926–1927). The halls were designed by William Augustus Bates, who repeated the Neo-Tudor style of Westlands through the use of stone and timber materials, and mansard roofs. The interiors are also in keeping with
1645-487: The northernmost six houses, listed below, are reserved for student living spaces. The northern houses include: Sarah Lawrence College is the member of Skyline Conference of NCAA Division III . The college sponsors intercollegiate teams in crew (rowing), men's and women's cross country , equestrian , men's basketball , men's and women's tennis , men's and women's volleyball , men's and women's soccer , women's softball , and men's and women's swimming . In March 2011,
1692-558: The oldest literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Nadal . In 1934, Joseph Campbell was offered a position as a professor at Sarah Lawrence College which he held until his retirement in 1972. Perceptual psychologist Rudolf Arnheim was on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College for 26 years, beginning in 1943. Author Grace Paley taught at Sarah Lawrence for many years. Novelist and folklorist Heinz Insu Fenkl taught at
1739-420: The past few years. The college's official mascot is a Gryphon by the name of Godric. It was chosen in the 1990s to represent the college's athletic teams after a long period of fielding sports teams without one. Unofficially, the student body had long adopted the large resident population of ' Black Squirrels ' as a de facto mascot to the college. The position of silent mascot that the 'Black Squirrel' occupied
1786-514: The renowned architect Philip Johnson in the sparse modernist style of the time, the "New Dorms" were completed in 1960. The architectural style of the buildings is meant to be a modernist reflection of the three older dorms (Gilbert, Titsworth, and Dudley Lawrence) that stand on the opposite side of the North Lawn. The three buildings that comprise the New Dorms are connected by two glass atria in which
1833-527: The same style. The campus is divided into two distinctive sections, the "Old Campus" and the "New Campus": the first is roughly contained within the boundaries of the former Lawrence estate, and the area of the second was acquired sometime after the college's earliest years. The area outside the original Lawrence estate holds the college's newer facilities. Several stately, century-old, Tudor-style mansions will be found among these newer additions, including Andrews, Tweed, Lynd, Marshall Field, and Slonim House: each
1880-559: Was a "Specialist in Literature" for the U.S. State Department in Pakistan 1965–1966, during which she taught for several months in that country. In 1966, she became the first director of Literary Programs for the newly created National Endowment for the Arts . She resigned that post in 1970, when the N.E.A. chairman, Roger L. Stevens , was fired by President Richard Nixon . She was a consultant to
1927-860: Was also a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop . She was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1995, but resigned three years later to protest the absence of women and minorities on the governing board. Kizer was married to the architect-historian, John Marshall Woodbridge. When she was not teaching and lecturing, she divided her time between their home in Sonoma, California , and their apartment in Paris. She died on October 9, 2014, in Sonoma, California, due to effects of dementia. Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College
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1974-650: Was born in Spokane, Washington , the daughter of a socially prominent Spokane couple. Her father, Benjamin Hamilton Kizer (1878–1978), who was 45 when she was born, was a successful attorney. Her mother, Mabel Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology who had received her doctorate from Stanford University . Kizer was once asked if she agreed with a description of her father as someone who "came across as supremely structured, intelligent, polite but always somewhat remote". Her reply: "Add 'authoritarian and severe', and you get
2021-530: Was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 60 years in prison. The first president of the college was Marion Coats from 1924 to 1929. She was a friend of Vassar College president Henry MacCracken and William Van Duzer Lawrence. Coats had traditional views of women's role in society that were at odds with her progressive approach to women's education. Cristle Collins Judd was introduced as president in 2017. In 2007, criticism of rankings of U.S. colleges and universities, particularly their perceived impact on
2068-507: Was financially endorsed by the college itself with the production of various Black Squirrel merchandise (including Sarah Lawrence clothing branded with the Black Squirrel image) and plush toys. It is only recently (post-2003) that efforts on the behalf of the college to establish the Gryphon as the icon of Sarah Lawrence have begun to take root. Among the prominent current or recent faculty of
2115-665: Was not aware that he had been living on campus. While there, Ray started a sex cult in which he presented himself to students as a former U.S. Marine with training in psychological operations . In 2011, he induced some students to move into the apartment of Lee Chen in nearby New York City . In 2013, four of Ray's victims graduated from Sarah Lawrence. In February 2020, he was charged by prosecutors in Manhattan with conspiracy, extortion , sex trafficking , forced labor, and other related offenses, following nearly 10 years of alleged transgressions with students and former students. Ray
2162-553: Was once a private estate, purchased by the college during periods of growth and expansion. The more modest Tudor houses along Mead Way, which also had been private residences, now serve as dormitories for students at the college. "Slonim Woods" is a group of newer, townhouse-style dormitories, built on the grounds of Slonim House. The Campbell Sports Center was constructed in 1998 in response to an increased focus on physical fitness and sports. This facility includes an indoor pool, gymnasium, track, squash courts, and weight rooms. In 2004,
2209-513: Was the only American college that completely disregarded SAT scores in its admission process. In the same The Washington Post article, Myers stated that she was informed by the U.S. News & World Report that if no SAT scores were submitted, U.S. News would "make up a number" to use in its magazines. She further argues that if the college were to decide to stop sending all data to U.S. News & World Report , their ranking would be artificially decreased. Sarah Lawrence College now maintains
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