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John Caddy
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Award-winning poet and educator John Caddy's "Earth Journal" poems circulate daily to teachers, naturalists, artists, and students around the world. A founder of the Minnesota's Poets in the Schools program, Caddy has taught adults and children to write poetry for more than forty years. He currently is Adjunct Professor, Graduate School, Hamline University, St Paul, and is past director of Hamline's Self Expressing Earth Program at the Center for Global Environmental Education. |
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Caddy is the author of two previous collections of poetry: The Color of Mesabi Bones (Milkweed, 1989), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize of Poetry, and Eating the Sting (Milkweed, 1986). The descendant of Cornish miners, Caddy was initiated in 2002 as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth. He has been a resident poet for some seven hundred schools and an instructor at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota. A Bush and Loft McKnight Fellow, he has won several awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, Minnesota Book Award, Poets and Writers National Reading Tour, and the Sally Ordway Irvine Award ("Sally Award"). He lives on ten acres of woods, ponds, and marsh near Forest Lake, MN. |
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