About
Research interests:
- poetics & performance
- ecological imagination
- collective narrative-making
- temporality
- human-environment relationships
- visual & experimental ethnography
Regions: Madagascar, southern United States, Islamic cultures, Brazil
Caroline New was raised in the precarious landscape of the Gulf Coast. Her research explores how ecological imagination is formed at the intersections of place attachment, narrative-making, and performance, and how this impacts human-environment relationships. Her creative work is rooted in the Gulf Coast, where she traces how love’s potential for violence manifests not only in our human relationships, but also in our connections to the natural and animal worlds.
She is the author of A History of Half-Birds (Milkweed Editions, 2024) winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Palette Poetry, PRISM International, and elsewhere. She is recipient of the 2023 Malahat Open Season Award, 2023 Driftwood In-House Poem Contest, 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, 2022 Robert & Adele Schiff Award, and 2022 Meader Family Award, amongst others.
Her intermedia work includes painting, sculpture, short film, translation, and eco-collaborations with musicians and filmmakers.
More at www.carolineharpernew.com
