Cathy Song

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Cathy Song (born Cathy-Lynn Song) is an American poet who has received numerous awards, including the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Her heritage, which comes from an Asian American tradition, is used in her work.

Personal life and education

Cathy Song was born in Hawaii to Ella Song, a Chinese-American seamstress and Andrew Song, a Korean-American airline pilot, and a Korean-American airline pilot. She grew up in the Waialae Kahala neighborhood of Oahu. She had an early interest in writing and literature and was able to write at a high level in her youth. Song wrote her first book when she was 11 years old. Song changed her focus toward music and began writing songs as she hoped to be a songwriter like her idol Joan Baez. Since high school, she became interested in poetry and began writing poems.

Song studied at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, where she collaborated closely with poet writer John Unterecker, who hoped that Song's work would flourish once she arrived on the mainland. He encouraged her to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she received even more encouragement after reading Georgia O'Keeffe's self-titled studio book. Picture Bride, Song's first published book, will incorporate artwork from this book. After graduating from Wellesley with a Bachelor's degree in English literature, Song went on to complete a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1981. During this period, Song married Douglas Davenport, her husband. In 1983, the two had their first child, a son, in Boston. They moved to Denver, Colorado, two years after their son's birth, owing to Davenport's medical residency. They had their second child, a daughter born in 1986, during their time in Denver. After a year, they migrated to Hawaii, where Song began working as a teacher. In 1991, Song had his third child, the second son. In Volcano, Hawaii Island, Song and her family built their house. A retired ER doctor, the singer's husband, is a painter and ceramic artist.

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Career

In 1978, Song began working with the Hawaii literary journal Bamboo Ridge.

In 1982, Song entered a rough draft of Picture Bride into a Yale University poetry competition. Song was named a "pioneer among a generation reexamining its roots" in Yale's series of Younger Poets Award, and Yale University unveiled her work the following year. Squares of Light (1988), School Figures (1994), and The land of Bliss (2001), she continued this book with several poetry collections, including Squares of Light (1988), and the land of Bliss (1994). Song's poems in Picture Bride are "colorful, sensual, and still," according to Richard Hugo, who has compared Song's poems to flowers in those moments in life that seemed to be small but in retrospect, they are the most significant."

Through the United States Information Agency's Arts America program, Song was invited to travel to Korea and Hong Kong in the early fall of 1994.

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Awards and recognition

• Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (1982, for Picture Bride)
• Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine
• Shelley Memorial Award (1993)
• Hawaii Award for Literature (1993)
• Elliot Cades Award for Literature
• Pushcart Prize
• National Endowment for the Arts grant (1997)