Native American Authors

Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi) , 1927-1997

Cherokee

Carroll Arnett was born in 1927, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma of Cherokee-French ancestry. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946-1947. In 1951, he received his B.A. degree from Beloit College magna cum laude, and in 1958 earned his M.A. degree from University of Texas, also completing fifty hours of graduate study beyond his M.A. He taught literature and writing at Nasson College and was professor of English at Central Michigan University. He wrote more than three hundred poems and stories, sometimes under his Cherokee name Gogisgi, and was a former Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill Band of the Cherokee Nation.

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1974.

Books by Carroll Arnett:

Arnett, Carroll. American Indian chapbook
Beloit, WI. : Beloit Poetry Journal, 1980.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Come
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1973.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Earlier
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1972.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Engine
Norman, OK : Point Riders Press, 1988.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Like a wall
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1969.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Night perimeter : new and selected poems 1958-1990
Greenfield Center, NY : Greenfield Review Press, 1991.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Not only that
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1967.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Rounds
Merrick, NY : Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982.
Genre: Poetry
Language: English and Cherokee
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. South line : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1979.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Spells
Blue Creek, OH : Bloody Twin Press, 1995.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Then : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1965.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Through the woods
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1971.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

Arnett, Carroll. Tsalagi : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1976.
Genre: Poetry
Audience: Adult

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