Carrie EtterMar 235 minHere 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...
Carrie EtterJan 254 minWriting Every DayA 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...
Carrie EtterOct 25, 20212 minThe Big Poetry Weekend 2021In 2020 The Big Poetry Weekend, formerly the Poetry Swindon Festival, was scheduled to go ahead at a new venue, Lydiard Park, in October,...
Carrie EtterOct 3, 20212 minThe Work of EndorsementsLast 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...
Carrie EtterMay 14, 20212 minWhat the Dead Leave BehindThis 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...
Carrie EtterFeb 17, 20212 minSpacing, Timing, and Juxtaposition in Prose and Lined PoetryLately I've been talking a lot about prose poetry: I'm teaching a Fortnightly Feedback course for The Poetry School focused on prose...
Carrie EtterFeb 10, 20212 minThe Silences, or Teaching University in a PandemicEvery 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...
Carrie EtterJul 11, 20201 minCatching Up with Reviews of The Weather in Normal in Poetry Review and The NorthAt 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...
Carrie EtterJun 19, 20201 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 7, 20202 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...
Carrie EtterFeb 26, 20202 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...
Carrie EtterFeb 16, 20201 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...
Carrie EtterFeb 8, 20202 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...
Carrie EtterJan 31, 20202 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...