Carrie Etter
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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Carrie Etter
- Jan 30, 2018
- 2 min
Michelle 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...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 21, 2018
- 1 min
Paul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), second selection
at 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,...
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Carrie Etter
- Jan 17, 2018
- 1 min
Paul Celan: 70 Poems (trans. Michael Hamburger) (Persea, 2013), first selection
It 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...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
This time of the year
I think today marks the latest in December I've ever decorated our Christmas tree. My mother often bought me ornaments as presents, and...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 19, 2017
- 1 min
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. AnamarÃa Crowe Serrano, Shearsman Books, 2016), second selectio
More fine passages from this splendid collection: ...the sound of the first cicada now fitfully cutting the silence of dawn. Words wanted...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 17, 2017
- 1 min
Beyond the Sea by Elsa Cross (trans. AnamarÃa Crowe Serrano, Shearsman, 2016), first selection
I've been enjoying Elsa Cross's work for some years now, thanks to AnamarÃa Crowe Serrano and Shearsman Books. Here are some favourite...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 11, 2017
- 1 min
Erin 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;...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 6, 2017
- 2 min
JL Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), second selection
A continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained...
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Carrie Etter
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
JW Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), first selection
I liked Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire, and published two selections of passages on my old Blogspot blog. Indeed, she...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 20, 2017
- 1 min
A smash review of Hometown
This weekend I was thrilled to learn of a new review of my pamphlet of flash fictions, Hometown, by Michael Loveday in Flash: The...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 17, 2017
- 1 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017), third selection
Herewith a third and final round of passages! ...a green hillside in Gunhill as evening fell just as it was falling somewhere else as it...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 15, 2017
- 2 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), second selection
A second selection of favourite passages: People walking, many tonight, and almost in rhythm, as if it were a way of collectively...
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Carrie Etter
- Nov 10, 2017
- 2 min
Cole Swensen's On Walking On (Nightboat, 2017), first selection
I'm relishing Cole Swensen's new book. Here is a first array of favourite passages: The first walk: the first line: that so alone am I...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 6, 2017
- 1 min
W.S. Graham's Implements in Their Places (Faber, 1977), 2 of 2
Here's a second run of favourite passages from this splendid book: Do not intrude too much Into the message you carry.... from 'Johann...
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Carrie Etter
- Oct 3, 2017
- 1 min
W.S. Graham's Implements in Their Places, 1 of 2 (Faber, 1977)
I've relished this book; here are some favourite passages. What is the language using us for? Said Malcolm Mooney moving away Slowly over...
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