Carrie Chappell

"That is what makes anybody a king that everybody cries but he does not." —Gertrude Stein in IDA #nokings

For all the girlhoods usurped me, guess I’ll write their hundred women.

Billy Joel Goth is what I’ve been carrying on the inside.

Thank you, Paris Heretics! You are a gorgeous and inspirational light to me!

Sometimes all I remember, or feel I truly know, is that before any other intimate sensuality I was allowed with others, I was allowed their (and thus mine too) texuality.

Thanks for being there 🤓

Sandra Moussempès with co-translators Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

Reading from Cassandra at point-blank range

Sandra Moussempès in English translation by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

Sandra Moussempès with co-translators Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy

Thank you so much to Ivy Writers Paris and Red Wheelbarrow for hosting us at last night’s French Poetry in Translation event. Here we are — Sandra, Amanda, and myself — post/during our braided reading of Cassandra at point-blank range (@lavink-dialogos.bsky.social).

Thank you for spending some time with it, Paris Heretics 🖤

Thank you, Stone Circle Review! I'm so grateful to be read by you!

Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶

Girl à feuilles caduques by Carrie Chappell   I know a bed can hold more than a sleeping body. I know a body can hold more than a sleeping girl. Parts of me, like branches, have always been erect, Have never slumbered. Under...

Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
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#BotN #BestOfTheNet

Having a deep-well, Walden nature moment with the digital bird sounds at Gare du Nord.

PARIS: Next Tuesday, with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom; Laura Mullen and Stéphanie Chaillou; Sandra Mousssempès, Amanda Murphy, and myself. Hosted by Ivy Writers and The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. Would be nice to see you there.

“[…] I reognize

One in you through the one in me,

We, who stay in fleeing –

Or who flee in staying.

And from your summary abode, I will tell you,

Out loud, I love you.”

Thank you for this digital embrace 🖤

Am so glad I'll finally get to meet y'all!

Looking forward to attending. Just got my ticket!

YouTube video by Carrie Chappell Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette

A poem I wrote at Hélène Bessette’s grave. I’ve published it via Substack, but here is the audio I made, something I like to do to work the poem out of the body in another way. (Of course, working it out of my body in my French is a very "another" exercise.)

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YouTube video by Carrie Chappell Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette

Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside:

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It’s always such an important visit for them and me!

I wanted to say thank you to @chapp010.bsky.social for inviting me to speak to your creative writing students at Oxbridge again this summer. I feel deeply grateful for the opportunity to connect with these minds of the future. I only hope that I inspire them half as much as they inspire me. 🙏

Palestine, Kosovo, Taïwan : à quoi sert la reconnaissance d'un État ? Après l’Espagne, l’Irlande ou la Norvège, le 22 septembre 2025, la France devrait reconnaître officiellement l’État de Palestine, lors de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU.

Sur @franceculture.fr. Alors que la France devrait reconnaître demain l’Etat de Palestine : à quoi sert-il de reconnaître un État ? Propos comparés avec Taïwan, le Kosovo, le cas du Sahara occidental. Merci à @insafrezagui.bsky.social www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Though I don't always practice it and think it has some real things to sort out, I think creative and euphoric translation practices are deeply interesting because they free the translator from this creepy benefactor vibe everyone's trying to dress up in.

Merci!

11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui.

« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette

Sending positive thoughts to you and yours!

Celebrating Women in Translation August is Women Writers in Translation month, and to honor that we’ve prepared a selection of Diálogos women authors in translation. Ranging from France to Croatia to Tunisia to Spain and Sou…

@lavink-dialogos.bsky.social celebrates Women in Translation month! Our co-translation of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès is featured in this selection. Special discount code: wit30

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« …il faut allumer l’épouvantable impatience…» —Liliane Giraudon

YouTube video by Lesteria Lesteria - Feeling the air

I'm excited to release this brand new video clip for my track "Feeling the air" from my recently released album, spatium. I hope you'll give it a watch and let me know what you think! 🎉
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