Carrie Etter
The Glee of Writing Every Day
For a month now, I've been tackling a new short poem on a daily basis, and at the moment I feel like I want to do this for the rest of my...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 23
- 5 min
Here comes National Poetry Month--and 35 prompts!
Hello, all. Given my last post was about writing daily, you won't be surprised to learn I encourage my students to try writing a poem a...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 25
- 4 min
Writing Every Day
A few days ago I commented on Twitter that I'm trying to draft a poem every day and not worry about perfection--just be engaged in being...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 25, 2021
- 2 min
The Big Poetry Weekend 2021
In 2020 The Big Poetry Weekend, formerly the Poetry Swindon Festival, was scheduled to go ahead at a new venue, Lydiard Park, in October,...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Work of Endorsements
Last week I posted on social media that I'd completed my last endorsement for the summer and wouldn't be doing more until winter break. I...
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Carrie Etter
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
What the Dead Leave Behind
This July will be the tenth anniversary of my mother's death. She had gone into the hospital the day before and was scheduled for a...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 17, 2021
- 2 min
Spacing, Timing, and Juxtaposition in Prose and Lined Poetry
Lately I've been talking a lot about prose poetry: I'm teaching a Fortnightly Feedback course for The Poetry School focused on prose...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
The Silences, or Teaching University in a Pandemic
Every so often since my last post, I've thought, I should write a new post--I should say something. I should fill the silence. But I have...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 11, 2020
- 1 min
Catching Up with Reviews of The Weather in Normal in Poetry Review and The North
At last, on leave from the university for a few weeks, I'm catching up, and it's such a pleasure to revisit these appreciative reviews of...
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Carrie Etter
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
The Shooting Gallery now available for pre-order!
This chapbook feels hard earned--begun in one of my most onerous years at my university, concluded amid a pandemic. It can be pre-ordered...
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Carrie Etter
- Jun 7, 2020
- 2 min
Finishing The Shooting Gallery, and Thinking about Prose Poetry Series and Sequences
This week I finished a draft of my chapbook manuscript, The Shooting Gallery, after roughly six months of work. As I mentioned in a...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 26, 2020
- 2 min
Free Verse 2020: Book Buying, Workloads, and the UCU Strike
The annual Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in London is one of my favourite events in the UK poetry calendar. I see many poets I know, I...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 16, 2020
- 1 min
Catching up with reviews of The Weather in Normal in TLS and Poetry Wales
Part of the interest in reading reviews is seeing how others measure the choices I made; at times it feels the reviewer has read the...
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Carrie Etter
- Feb 8, 2020
- 2 min
For love of lit fests
The Scallop by Maggi Hambling on Aldeburgh beach As some of you already know, following my university's restructuring last summer, this...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
A new pamphlet, The Shooting Gallery, is coming out from Verve Poetry Press in October!
The last weekend of March 2019, my husband Trevor Lillistone and I went to Prague for my birthday weekend, as Prague is one of my...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
NaPoWriMo Prompts for 2019
The last couple years I've been running a closed group on Facebook for NaPoWriMo. I provided prompts for the month for anyone who wanted...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 9, 2018
- 1 min
The first reviews of The Weather in Normal!
The first sighting was on Sarah James' blog, with these good words: "The poems in Carrie Etter’s The Weather in Normal (Seren) are...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 13, 2018
- 1 min
A Fiction Writer...
I was a little surprised and honored to be asked to do two interviews focusing on my short fiction pamphlet, Hometown (V. Press, 2016) by...
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Carrie Etter
- Jul 23, 2018
- 2 min
Flash Fiction Festival 2018
This weekend I attended my first Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. The festival was founded and organised by Jude Higgins with much...
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Carrie Etter
- Mar 13, 2018
- 1 min
AWP Bookfair, The First Haul
I love the AWP Bookfair. I always learn of presses I hadn't heard of before, I see editors who've published my work, and I encounter new...
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