Carolina Ebeid

Genre: Poetry

Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press, 2016). She holds a PhD from the University of Denver, and has won fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center, the NEA, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She helps edit poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the online zine Visible Binary with her family. She teaches at Regis University and Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver.

Mentor Statement

As a mentor, I am involved in the cultivation of relationships. There is the groundwork between mentor and mentee, which takes place over an ongoing conversation, a back-and-forth exchange of questions and answers. Literary mentorship doesn’t merely fulfill one half of a transaction where the teacher responds with expert, editorial remarks to student work. I try to orient myself to think, imagine, reimagine alongside the student, in order to develop that vital relationship between the poet and their poetry. How to become more attuned to the work? What urgent questions is the writer asking the page? How might the poem be examining the writer? Even if a text is an intricate, mysterious knot, it can slowly be untangled; I teach my students to become careful readers of literature, to describe the minute machinations of a line or sentence. My interests as a reader and writer concern the serial poem, the lyric essay, documentary poetics, ecopoetry, digital collage and video poetry.