About

Carolyn Grassi graduated from Brooklyn College-CUNY. She holds an M.A. in Political Philosophy and MPA from San Jose State University and has taught in several community colleges. She practiced mediation as a member of the Maryknoll community (where she met her future husband, Joseph). Her poems are often meditative reflections. Her books of poetry are: Heart and Soul (Patmos Press, 2014), Transparencies (Patmos Press, 2003), and
Journey to Chartres (Black Swan Books, 1986).

Carolyn Grassi is a recipient of an Ingram Merrrill Writing grant. Her poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the late Harry Ford (poetry editor at Knopf). She is published in many poetry journals and given readings widely, at Yale, Smith College, Books Inc. NYC and in the Bay Area. Carolyn and Joseph Grassi co-authored: “Mary Magdalene…”(Sheed & Ward, 1983).

It was the late Naomi Clark who first encouraged Carolyn Grassi in the beginning years of the San Jose Poetry Center.