Queensborough Spotlight on Creative Writers: Carolyn Raphael

Date: May 5th, 2010
Duration: 15m:8s

Carolyn Raphael taught for more than three decades in the English department at Queensborough Community College. She is the author of two college textbooks, published by Macmillan: Rhetorical Reader for ESL Writers (1983, with Elaine Goran Newman) and The Writing Reader (1986). She edited, with Lawrence J. Raphael and Miriam R. Valdovinos, Language and Cognition, Plenum Press (1984). Her poems have appeared in journals including Cumberland Poetry Review, Measure, Orbis, Pivot, and Rattapallax. Diagrams of Bittersweet, a chapbook, was published in 1997 by Somers Rocks Press. Her new collection, The Most Beautiful Room in the World, was published in February 2010, by David Robert Books.