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carlasarett.bsky.social

Novelist/poet based in San Francisco. Fiction: A Closet Feminist (Unsolicited), The Looking Glass, (Propertius) Poetry: She Has Visions (Main Street Rag); My Family Was Like a Russian Novel (Plan B); Woman on the Run (Alien Buddha.)

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“After Swan Lake, Philadelphia”— published in Constellations.

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“before the first frost” [first in Hamilton Stone Review]

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Delighted to be a Contributing Editor to New Verse Review. You can read my review of Matthew Nienow’s IF NOTHING there. newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

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My poem, “Subway,” first published in Songs of Eretz, and then my chap, Woman on Run. It turns dark between stations then no thing divides us.

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A Frank O’Hara morning.

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“Grief Therapy” published in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

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Five women holding hands and skipping together, 1935 by photographer by Toni Frissell #WomensArt #Fridayfeeling !

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Mine, from “Woman on the Run” …seems relevant today.

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“You are closer to me than flesh…” —Paul Zweig #poetry #poem #poems

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My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.

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Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.

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Happy Birthday, Frederick Seidel.

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If you’re seeking forgotten horror/gothic/unclassifiable, look at this U.K. publisher: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/

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mine from @stonecoastreview.bsky.social “Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise”

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Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.

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“At Midnight, The Fox Sisters Hear Taps in Their Bedroom”— from New Verse Review.

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Time for a laugh, “I Defeat the Woodpecker.”

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Still looking for book swaps, especially chapbooks, old and new. I have two I can offer in return. Send a message if you’re interested— and if it’s new, I may want to review it.

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for Valentine’s Day, “The World is Theirs” — [published in Discretionary Love]

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Because we all need a sad cat poem.

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My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.

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Another great Boris Dralyuk translation from the Russian. This time, “Winter” by Julia Nemirovskaya (in Plough, via New Verse Review roundup)

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Hey poets, I’m on here now!

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Some noirish poetry for your day, published in Broken Spine. #weldonkees

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January 2025 round-up of poetry and other writing and art I loved is up now on my blog! What has been giving you life lately? nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/j...

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"...i meet myself too often angled so there's no one right side up just upside down" @carlasarett.bsky.social captures perfectly the woozy sense of disorientation that David Lynch, RIP, always brought us (and which we always savoured).

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Delighted to have my David Lynch poem, Lost Highway, in this wonderful Lynch tribute from New Verse Review: newversereview.substack.com/p/a-diner-fo...

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On his birthday, my cento poem for Dickens— “My Dickens Years” — uses lines from Bleak House.

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Lovely to see My Family Was Like a Russian Novel featured by @sundresspub.bsky.social

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2024, “Mad Junius” in The Rush

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Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise, published in @stonecoastreview.bsky.social

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One of my epistolary centos, “The Artist’s Secret” published in 2024.

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“After Swan Lake, Philadelphia”— published in Constellations.

“before the first frost” [first in Hamilton Stone Review]

Delighted to be a Contributing Editor to New Verse Review. You can read my review of Matthew Nienow’s IF NOTHING there. newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

My poem, “Subway,” first published in Songs of Eretz, and then my chap, Woman on Run. It turns dark between stations then no thing divides us.

A Frank O’Hara morning.

“Grief Therapy” published in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social

Five women holding hands and skipping together, 1935 by photographer by Toni Frissell #WomensArt #Fridayfeeling !

Mine, from “Woman on the Run” …seems relevant today.

“You are closer to me than flesh…” —Paul Zweig #poetry #poem #poems

My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.

Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.

Happy Birthday, Frederick Seidel.

If you’re seeking forgotten horror/gothic/unclassifiable, look at this U.K. publisher: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/

mine from @stonecoastreview.bsky.social “Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise”

Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.

“At Midnight, The Fox Sisters Hear Taps in Their Bedroom”— from New Verse Review.

Time for a laugh, “I Defeat the Woodpecker.”

Still looking for book swaps, especially chapbooks, old and new. I have two I can offer in return. Send a message if you’re interested— and if it’s new, I may want to review it.

for Valentine’s Day, “The World is Theirs” — [published in Discretionary Love]

Because we all need a sad cat poem.

My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.

Another great Boris Dralyuk translation from the Russian. This time, “Winter” by Julia Nemirovskaya (in Plough, via New Verse Review roundup)

Hey poets, I’m on here now!

Some noirish poetry for your day, published in Broken Spine. #weldonkees

January 2025 round-up of poetry and other writing and art I loved is up now on my blog! What has been giving you life lately? nisinson.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/j...

"...i meet myself too often angled so there's no one right side up just upside down" @carlasarett.bsky.social captures perfectly the woozy sense of disorientation that David Lynch, RIP, always brought us (and which we always savoured).

Delighted to have my David Lynch poem, Lost Highway, in this wonderful Lynch tribute from New Verse Review: newversereview.substack.com/p/a-diner-fo...

On his birthday, my cento poem for Dickens— “My Dickens Years” — uses lines from Bleak House.

Lovely to see My Family Was Like a Russian Novel featured by @sundresspub.bsky.social

2024, “Mad Junius” in The Rush

Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise, published in @stonecoastreview.bsky.social

One of my epistolary centos, “The Artist’s Secret” published in 2024.

My little song poem, “blue” appears in Ragaire Literary Magazine this month.

Donald Davie, “Across the Bay”

My poem “Sea Lions” in the lovely new issue of Picture Journal.

“Disraeli Bedtime Story” from Naugatuck River Review