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Carla Sarett

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Fiction and Novelist/poet based in San Francisco. Fiction: A Closet Feminist (Unsolicited) Poetry: She Has Visions (Main Street); My Family Was Like a Russian Novel (Plan B); Woman on the Run (Alien Buddha.) Any Excuse for a Party (Bainbridge Island)

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09.07.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Any Excuse for a Party: Interview Interview with Susan Weinstein about my new chapbook

Any Excuse for a Party: Interview
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09.07.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@susaniweinstein.bsky.social

20.06.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Personally NO

20.06.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thanks to Susan Weinstein for this fun interview about Any Excuse for a Party.

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20.06.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brian Wilson was a true originalโ€” with a sense of melody few have equalled. .

11.06.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh Brian Wilsonโ€ฆ.

11.06.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Jessica!

07.06.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks much, Simeon!

06.06.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks much!

06.06.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New content every morning! We ate the usual Peking Duck and flew all over and then we were seventy and in-between.

Have a laugh. My piece, โ€œThe New Ninetyโ€. in The Gorko Gazette

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04.06.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The World is Theirs (for #pride month)

03.06.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Opening

I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one-this
passing through.

โ€”Tess Gallagher

Opening I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one-this passing through. โ€”Tess Gallagher

Oof, yes.

30.04.2025 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 298    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks to editor Jeffrey Heath.

30.05.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Three Poems by Carla Sarett Unsent Postcard I own too many heirloom timepieces like the broken grandfather clock, it never strikes the hour properly, it lags a minute then longer so by mid- summer 9 a.m. it might be any hour.โ€ฆ

Some new poems of mine here, including one of my Dickens centos.
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30.05.2025 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So pleased to see Joan Kwon Glassโ€™s wonderful collection win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. A book that has stayed with me.

28.05.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

One of the rare times my father chastised me was when I described a house as ugly. He said, sweetheart, someone lives in that house.

15.05.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Always Emily Dickinson. โ€œForever is composed of Nows.โ€

15.05.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of fir trees on a snowy mountain side. The sun peeks through a cloudy sky.

A photo of fir trees on a snowy mountain side. The sun peeks through a cloudy sky.

"The other night I danced for the first time in months /
to my favorite Sheryl Crow songโ€”opens with guitar /
and drums."

The poem SELF-ELEGIES by our recently passed contributor @marthasilano.bsky.social
was published in Poetry Magazine โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน Please give it a read: buff.ly/UDTtaHC

13.05.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would never erase a bookโ€ฆbut Iโ€™m fine never reading The Old Man and the Sea again. .

06.05.2025 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh thank youโ€ฆ.I do enjoy humor in poetry.

05.05.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From my archive of silly poems, โ€œIf I Were a Woman in a Novelโ€ (published in Lighten Up)

05.05.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much, I chose the painting by the great Judith Leyster (whose work went unrecognized for centuries.)

30.04.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And thanks to @hobocampreview.bsky.social @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social + other great editors.

29.04.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yes, we all need poems about Betty Boop and baby elephantsโ€ฆmy new e-bookโ€™s out (hey, only $5)

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29.04.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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my poem about a dressโ€ฆ.a Patrick Kelly dress. from Woman on the Run.

03.04.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I am holding this for you: cento using lines drawn from Richard Siken, Crush and The War of the Foxes

My cento from lines of Richard Siken in JAKE today

jakethemag.com/i-am-holding...

19.03.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Reviews โ€” TRAMPOLINE

My review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by KOSS appears in Trampoline today.
@diodeeditions.bsky.social

www.trampolinepoetry.com/reviews

14.03.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks so much!

13.03.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art 2025: #47 Carla Sarett Carla Sarett is a poet, essayist and fiction writer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Thimble, Blue Unicorn, San Pedro River Review, Naugatuck River Review, ONE Art, Hobart Pulp, Acrโ€ฆ

A Fevers of the Mind Poetry Showcase #47 from Carla Sarett #Poetry #writingcommunity @carlasarett.bsky.social #feversofthemind feversofthemind.com/2025/03/12/f...

12.03.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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