"Kreiter-Foronda invites her readers to join in an artistic family reunion, bringing together the visual and verbal expressions of creativity which are too often separated in contemporary culture. She has an almost magical ability to become fully immersed in another artist's personal vision, transforming distant fragments of art history into moments of intense awareness." --Donna McKee, Artist and Museum Educator

Gathering Light

Literature & Fiction

Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn

Poetry

Scop Pubns

Book by Tuthill, Stacy J., Johnson, Jean H., Knox, Ann B., Knobloch, Marta, Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn

Laurels: Eight Women Poets

Tuthill, Stacy J.

Knox, Ann B.

Johnson, Jean H.

Knobloch, Marta

<p>From the first to the last page of The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Poems, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda captures and evokes the spiritual richness and artistic quaking of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and their complicated, love-torn lives. With sumptuous imagery, yet acute precision and detail, the book delves into the artistic, marital and physical struggles of the artists, detailing how Kahlo, who even as she was undergoing painful surgeries and engaging her work, anguished about her husband Diego Rivera’s famous infidelities. The Rivera poems are sometimes delicate, sometimes swarthy and muscular, representing the painter’s physical and imagistic largess, as well as his interaction with his beloved Kahlo — an endearing, nonchalant kiss. Kreiter-Foronda’s portrait of these artists explores work, lives, and their well-documented Titan-like dance in an authentic voice, giving life and breath to not only Kahlo’s surreal self-portraits, the tragic accident that became her artistic nexus, Diego’s “art for the people” stance, but also the stoic and defiant voices of the artists that emboldened first the Mexican people and subsequently, the world. With its kinetic energy and bold envisioning, The Embrace is a well-researched, supremely crafted and perfectly executed narrative “embrace.” ––Shonda Buchanan, author of Who’s Afraid of Black Indians?</p>

The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo: Poems by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda

San Francisco Bay Press

The power of the written word can transform the human experience... One of the special roles of poetry is to concentrate observations and their attendant emotions in ways that can be a powerful stimulus to our imagination and helps us to transcend the particular moment of occurrence... The Poets Laureate of Virginia featured in this anthology possess this special gift. Our lives are richer for their dedication to their crafts as well as the insights from their hearts.- Charles W. Steger, President of Virginia Tech

Four Virginia Poets Laureate(2004-2012): An Anthology & Reader's Guide

DOVE, RITA

Emerson, Claudia

CHERRY, Kelly

Cedar Creek Pub

<p>"Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda’s poems strike the ear along with the intelligence, evoking the natural world, visual art, and questions of self, transcendence, and responsibility, in the lyric mode. Her poems embrace the great subjects of the lyric: the intense, intuitive, and revelatory relationships that one thinking person can effect through observation, memory, and experience. . . . This poet is also doubly gifted, doubly trained, and brings a painter’s eye to the task of words. . . . Kreiter-Foronda’s poems remind us that seeing has its own way of meaning, and knowledge can arise from immersed observation as clearly as from overt acts of thinking. Her poems develop an idea of individual responsibility in relation to what is natural. In moments of intense emotion time is stilled, yet expands; these poems open like flowers with illuminated moments of double vision, inviting and challenging us to look again, revise our cursory sight and think more deeply." -- Cathryn Hankla, “Redoubled Visions: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda’s Lyrics,” Four Virginia Poets Laureate (2004-2012), Edited by Sofia M. Starnes, Poet Laureate of Virginia (2012-2014)</p>

These Flecks of Color

Artemis 2023

Giovanni, Nikki

SMITH, RON

Spire Books

River Country captures the setting of Tidewater Virginia, all the way to the Bay, with its well-measured, sonorous words. The author, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, was appointed Poet Laureate 2006-2008 for the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor Timothy M. Kaine. Her poems contain a life list of birds, seen in context, from cardinals fretting at a backyard feeder . . . to the once threatened osprey that 'dives to kill.' Unflinching in her observations and meditations while deeply empathetic with the natural world, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda writes from an awareness of our human, mostly sorry, impact on land, waters, and creatures, even as she sings every shred of life she sees.

River Country

Independent Publisher

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