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Profile 1 - Carolyn Smart
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.By Stephen Petrick with photography
by Bernard Clark
 Carolyn
Smart’s life is an open book. She has written about nearly
every important aspect of her life — the good, the bad, the
shocking and sad — and exposed it to the public. After publishing
six books of both poetry and prose and contributing to dozens of
anthologies, she has few secrets about her successful but, at times,
difficult life.
She admits this without regret. Writing, she explains, is a healing
activity. It has helped her deal with her mother’s death,
an unhappy first marriage and even childhood abuse. And her incredible
dedication to the craft has helped her lead a productive career.
At age 58, she is a long-time professor at Queen’s University
and an award-winning author whose work has been used in songs and
dramatic plays.
“Perhaps some people would say I’ve been too free with
my personal information,” she says in an interview from her
Harrowsmith-area home. “But it’s always been who I am.”
A particularly sad passage in her 2001-published memoir, At the
End of the Day, reads, “I am a storyteller to keep all these
things clear to myself. That’s why I’m telling myself
this story now, fear in my chest like a cantaloupe, fingers twitching.
I have to tell myself this story once and for all so I’ll
know it’s not a dream. . . . .”
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of Riverview Publishing Inc.
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Inc. No reproduction or republication in whole or part without written
permission.
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