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...

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...

In 2020 The Big Poetry Weekend, formerly the Poetry Swindon Festival, was scheduled to go ahead at a new venue, Lydiard Park, in October,...

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...

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...

Lately I've been talking a lot about prose poetry: I'm teaching a Fortnightly Feedback course for The Poetry School focused on prose...

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...

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...

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...

This week I finished a draft of my chapbook manuscript, The Shooting Gallery, after roughly six months of work. As I mentioned in a...

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...

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...

The Scallop by Maggi Hambling on Aldeburgh beach As some of you already know, following my university's restructuring last summer, this...

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...

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...

The first sighting was on Sarah James' blog, with these good words: "The poems in Carrie Etter’s The Weather in Normal (Seren) are...

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...

This weekend I attended my first Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. The festival was founded and organised by Jude Higgins with much...

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...

Favourite passages from Michelle's last book following her death from cancer last year: Beneath a spread of stars we found ourselves side...