Carrie EtterJun 191 minThe 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...
Carrie EtterJun 72 minFinishing The Shooting Gallery, and Thinking about Prose Poetry Series and SequencesThis week I finished a draft of my chapbook manuscript, The Shooting Gallery, after roughly six months of work. As I mentioned in a previ...
Carrie EtterFeb 262 minFree Verse 2020: Book Buying, Workloads, and the UCU StrikeThe 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 chec...
Carrie EtterFeb 161 minCatching up with reviews of The Weather in Normal in TLS and Poetry WalesPart of the interest in reading reviews is seeing how others measure the choices I made; at times it feels the reviewer has read the boo...
Carrie EtterFeb 82 minFor love of lit festsThe Scallop by Maggi Hambling on Aldeburgh beach As some of you already know, following my university's restructuring last summer, this a...
Carrie EtterJan 312 minA 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 favouri...
Carrie EtterMar 25, 20193 minNaPoWriMo Prompts for 2019The last couple years I've been running a closed group on Facebook for NaPoWriMo. I provided prompts for the month for anyone who wanted ...
Carrie EtterDec 9, 20181 minThe 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 powerf...
Carrie EtterNov 13, 20181 minA 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...
Carrie EtterJul 23, 20182 minFlash Fiction Festival 2018This weekend I attended my first Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. The festival was founded and organised by Jude Higgins with much assi...
Carrie EtterMar 13, 20181 minAWP Bookfair, The First HaulI 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 w...
Carrie EtterJan 30, 20182 minMichelle Boisseau's Among the Gorgons (U of Tampa, 2016)Favourite passages from Michelle's last book following her death from cancer last year: Beneath a spread of stars we found ourselves side...
Carrie EtterJan 21, 20181 minPaul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), second selectionat times when only the void stood between us we got all the way to each other. end of 'So many constellations' A nothing we were, are, sh...
Carrie EtterJan 17, 20181 minPaul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), first selectionIt seemed time to return to Paul Celan's work, and I couldn't find my previous edition of his poems, so I purchased this one, as it was a...
Carrie EtterDec 22, 20171 minThis time of the yearI think today marks the latest in December I've ever decorated our Christmas tree. My mother often bought me ornaments as presents, and s...
Carrie EtterDec 19, 20171 minBeyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman Books, 2016), second selectioMore fine passages from this splendid collection: ...the sound of the first cicada now fitfully cutting the silence of dawn. Words wanted...
Carrie EtterDec 17, 20171 minBeyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Shearsman, 2016), first selectionI've been enjoying Elsa Cross's work for some years now, thanks to Anamaría Crowe Serrano and Shearsman Books. Here are some favourite pa...
Carrie EtterDec 11, 20171 minErin Belieu's Slant Six (Copper Canyon, 2014)I have fewer passages to quote with this collection because many of these poems' power comes from the way they operate as a whole; noneth...
Carrie EtterDec 6, 20172 minJL Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), second selectionA continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained st...
Carrie EtterDec 4, 20172 minJW Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), first selectionI liked Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire, and published two selections of passages on my old Blogspot blog. Indeed, she laun...