Karen Mulhallen

Karen Mulhallen
Occupation educator, poet, editor of Descant literary magazine
Language English
Website
www.karenmulhallen.com

Karen Mulhallen (born 1942 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a Canadian educator, poet, essayist, critic and editor. She received her BA in 1963 from Waterloo Lutheran University, (now Wilfrid Laurier University) her MA (English) in 1967, and PhD (English) in 1975, both from the University of Toronto. She taught English at Ryerson University from 1967 to 2014. She served as the poetry review editor of The Canadian Forum from 1974 to 1979, and their features editor from 1975 to 1988. In 1973 Karen Mulhallen became editor-in-chief of Descant (magazine) until its close in 2015.[1][2]

Career

For 42 years, Karen Mulhallen was editor-in-chief of Descant (magazine), a Toronto-based quarterly journal of poetry, prose and visual arts.[3] During that time, the magazine won six Canadian National Magazine Awards[4] and the Litho Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Printing Industry.[5]

Until her retirement in 2014, Dr. Mulhallen, a William Blake scholar,[6] was a professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto [7] and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Department of English.[8]

Early in her career Karen Mulhallen was shy about submitting her work for publication until she became involved with Descant (magazine) in the early 1970s.[9] A prolific writer, she has published 16 books of poetry, a number of edited volumes and dozens of essays and academic articles on the arts both in Canada and in the UK.[10] In 2010 she organized and chaired a symposium, “Blake In Our Time: A Symposium Celebrating the Future of Blake Studies & the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr.”[11]

Karen Mulhallen has been called a metaphysical poet.[12] Her most recent book of poetry, Code Orange: An Emblazoned Suite is a bilingual edition (French/English) translated by Nancy Huston (Black Moss Press, 2015).

Her papers are archived at the University of Calgary[13] and at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.[14]

Selected Book Publications

Poetry

Edited Volumes

References

  1. https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/sites/fisher.library.utoronto.ca/files/mulhallen443.pdf Retrieved August 3, 2015
  2. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/12/11/descant_literary_journal_folds_after_44_years.html Retrieved August 3, 2015
  3. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/12/11/descant_literary_journal_folds_after_44_years.html Retrieved August 3, 2015
  4. http://blog.magazine-awards.com/2014/12/10/farewell-descant/ Retrieved August 4, 2015
  5. http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/affiliatedfaculty/mulhallen.htm Retrieved August 4, 2015
  6. http://www.worldcat.org/title/william-blakes-illustrations-to-edward-youngs-night-thoughts-context-christology-and-composite-work/oclc/82295043 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  7. http://www.ryerson.biz/english/faculty-staff/directory/mulhallenk.html Retrieved August 3, 2015
  8. http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/affiliatedfaculty/mulhallen.htm Retrieved August 3, 2015
  9. http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/special_feature_interview_with_descant_magzaine_editorinchief_karen_mulhallen Retrieved August 3, 2015
  10. http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/affiliatedfaculty/mulhallen.htm Retrieved August 3, 2015
  11. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/blake_in_our_time/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  12. http://www.blaurockpress.com/2009/10/karen-mulhallen/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  13. https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/karen-mulhallen-fonds Retrieved August 3, 2015
  14. https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/karen-mulhallen-papers Retrieved August 3, 2015
  15. http://blackmosspress.com/dd-product/fishing-poems/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  16. http://blackmosspress.com/dd-product/the-pillow-books/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  17. http://www.blaurockpress.com/2009/10/karen-mulhallen/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  18. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Horses-Karen-Mulhallen/dp/0887534333 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  19. http://www.worldcat.org/title/renga-talk/oclc/190965062 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  20. http://www.amazon.ca/Sea-Light-Poems-Karen-Mulhallen/dp/0887533809 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  21. http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/affiliatedfaculty/mulhallen.htm Retrieved August 3, 2015
  22. http://blackmosspress.com/dd-product/the-grace-of-private-passage/ Retrieved August 3, 2015
  23. http://www.worldcat.org/title/herm-on-tour/oclc/42612081 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  24. http://www.worldcat.org/title/caverns-of-ely/oclc/38592750&referer=brief_results Retrieved August 3, 2015
  25. http://www.amazon.ca/War-Surgery-1981-1995-Jazz-Catafalque/dp/088753290X Retrieved August 3, 2015
  26. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?wi=35975862 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  27. http://www.amazon.ca/Era-Acid-Rain-Karen-Mulhallen/dp/0887532624 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  28. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM229988&R=229988 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  29. http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM868960&R=868960 Retrieved August 3, 2015
  30. http://www.worldcat.org/title/remember-me-blake-in-our-time-a-keepsake-book-in-celebration-of-an-exhibition-and-symposium-on-the-life-and-art-of-william-blake-1757-1827-victoria-university-toronto/oclc/659175616?page=citation Retrieved August 3, 2015
  31. https://books.google.ca/books?id=iPhQsrbDWcoC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=karen+mulhallen+blake+scholar&source=bl&ots=TRJvx14_k2&sig=BAlAdOIJ-S-LxhRFOf46i7GJgtE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAWoVChMIsZDTiMCNxwIVVQ-SCh1VJglL#v=onepage&q=karen%20mulhallen%20blake%20scholar&f=false Retrieved August 3, 2015
  32. http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/affiliatedfaculty/mulhallen.htm Retrieved August 3, 2015
  33. http://www.worldcat.org/title/paper-guitar-27-writers-celebrate-25-years-of-descant-magazine/oclc/32742398?page=citation Retrieved August 3, 2015
  34. https://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol13no1/revviewsfromthenorth.html Retrieved August 3, 2015
  35. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2260601 Retrieved August 3, 2015
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