Description The poetry of Carol Coffee Reposa reflects the wide diversity of her life experience as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, traveler, musician, gardener, swimmer, and lifelong lover of the arts.
She makes her home in San Antonio..
She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and is on the editorial staff of Voices de la Luna.
Thomas describes her as "a national poet of seriousness and distinction."About the Author The poems, reviews, and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa have appeared or are forthcoming in the Atlanta Review, the Evansville Review, the Texas Observer, Southwestern American Literature, the Valparaiso Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies.
The 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Larry D.
She also has received three Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico.
Author of four books of poetry and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Reposa was a finalist in The Malahat Review\'s Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest (1992), and winner of the San Antonio Public Library\'s Arts & Letters Award (2015).
Although born in southern California, she comes from an unabashedly Texan family, and her work draws heavily on the history, climate, and culture of the Lone Star State.
Description The poetry of Carol Coffee Reposa reflects the wide diversity of her life experience as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, traveler, musician, gardener, swimmer, and lifelong lover of the arts
