Carrie Etter
Originally from Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001 and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol. Her poems appear in Boston Review, the Iowa Review, the New Republic, the New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, and the Times Literary Supplement, and her fifth collection, Grief’s Alphabet, will be published in April 2024. She has received grants from the Society of Authors and Arts Council England and also publishes short stories, essays, and reviews.
Reading List
Bigamy
rural Kentucky, 1945 a fishing shack as one-room house one narrow bed, one white oak basket two Bernadines in the sounds of the river dee dee dee chickadee mallards, whooping cranes beaver scratch and squeal in the shack, barely the sound of breath mother and infant the bed, the basket since the revelation staggered sundered […]