Carole Langille

Carole Glasser Langille (born 1952) is a Canadian poet, author of four books of poetry, two collections of short stories, two children's books, and a non-fiction work.

Life and writings

Originally from New York City, where she studied with the poets John Ashbery and Carolyn Forché among others, Langille later moved to Black Point, Nova Scotia.

Langille's second book of poetry, In Cannon Cave, was nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1997, and for the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 1998. Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems was nominated for the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2013. Her children's book, Where the Wind Sleeps, was the Canadian Children's Book Center Choice in 1996. "The Depth of This Quiet", by Canadian composer Alice Ping Yee Ho, interprets poems by Langille using a combination of Eastern and Western instruments and was performed in New York City in 2017.

She has taught at The Humber School for Writing Summer Program, Maritime Writer's Workshop, the Community of Writers in Tatamagouche, and at Women's Words the University of Alberta. CBC Literary Awards, finalist, 1996

Critical observations

Selected publications

Poetry All That Glitters in Water (New Poetry Series, Baltimore, 1990) In Cannon Cave (Brick Books, 1997) Late in a Slow Time (Mansfield Press, 2003) Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems (Pedlar Press, Toronto 2012)

Children Where the Wind Sleeps (Roseway Publishing, 1996) Interview with a Stick Collector ( Roseway Publishing, 2004)

Prose When I Always Wanted Something (The Mercury Press, 2008) I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are (2016)

Anthology Blood to Remember: American Poets on Holocaust (Texas University Press, 1991) Vintage '92 (Sono Nis Press, 1993) Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of '93 (Samurai Press, 1993) Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway 1999) Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Gooselane 2002) In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Raincoast Books 2005)

Non-fiction Doing Time: Writing Workshops in Prison, Pottersfield Press, (January 2020)