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Carla Sarett

@carlasarett.bsky.social
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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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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Have a laugh. A new poem “Cassandra” up at www.boundby.co.uk/004/carla-sa...
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
My Lou Reed abecedarian in the Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by the Velvet Underground from @bloodandhoney.bsky.social www.bloodhoneylit.com/rules-of-ver...
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i’ll be your mirror — Blood+Honey
by Carla Sarett “Andy’s doing soup cans / because why not…/...& I don’t know why I’m / exploding over Nico’s / forlorn Factory Euro- / glamor…”
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
On Valentine’s Day…which was my husband’s birthday.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
my poem reprinted in Broken City, “The Fox Sisters Hear Taps in Their Bedroom”
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
David Lynch, much missed. Mine from @newversereview.bsky.social
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“They Made Wars”. first appeared in @oneart.bsky.social Giant mothers outgrew houses. They made wars without anyone noticing.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is happening…
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Thanks to @brokencity for publishing “Who Jumped in the Water” (first appeared in @bowerygothic.bsky.social )
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
for the brave women of Iran. My heroes.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My hero. Praying for women of Iran.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Mine, from Pictura Journal
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Nice to see my Brian Wilson abecedarian “Don’t Worry Baby” reprinted from @newversereview.bsky.social — now in Beach Chair Press/
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Thanks to Bainbridge Island for the Best of Net nomination for my poem, “After Swan Lake, Philadelphia”.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Time for a laugh….
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A little poem for your Thanksgiving.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Any Excuse for a Party: Interview open.substack.com/pub/cjsarett...
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Any Excuse for a Party: Interview
Interview with Susan Weinstein about my new chapbook
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thanks to Susan Weinstein for this fun interview about Any Excuse for a Party. substack.com/@susanweinst...
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Oh Brian Wilson….
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Have a laugh. My piece, “The New Ninety”. in The Gorko Gazette thegorkogazette.com/2025/06/04/t...
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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.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The World is Theirs (for #pride month)
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Some new poems of mine here, including one of my Dickens centos. januaryhouselit.com/2025/05/29/t...
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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.…
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So pleased to see Joan Kwon Glass’s wonderful collection win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. A book that has stayed with me.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Always Emily Dickinson. “Forever is composed of Nows.”
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"The other night I danced for the first time in months / to my favorite Sheryl Crow song—opens with guitar / and drums." The poem SELF-ELEGIES by our recently passed contributor @marthasilano.bsky.social was published in Poetry Magazine ❤️‍🩹 Please give it a read: buff.ly/UDTtaHC
A photo of fir trees on a snowy mountain side. The sun peeks through a cloudy sky.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
From my archive of silly poems, “If I Were a Woman in a Novel” (published in Lighten Up)
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Yes, we all need poems about Betty Boop and baby elephants…my new e-book’s out (hey, only $5) bainbridgeisland.press/products/any...
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
my poem about a dress….a Patrick Kelly dress. from Woman on the Run.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My cento from lines of Richard Siken in JAKE today jakethemag.com/i-am-holding...
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I am holding this for you: cento
using lines drawn from Richard Siken, Crush and The War of the Foxes
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by KOSS appears in Trampoline today. @diodeeditions.bsky.social www.trampolinepoetry.com/reviews
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Reviews — TRAMPOLINE
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David L O'Nan (Fevers of the Mind) @feversof.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A Fevers of the Mind Poetry Showcase #47 from Carla Sarett #Poetry #writingcommunity @carlasarett.bsky.social #feversofthemind feversofthemind.com/2025/03/12/f...
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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, Acr…
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Maya Popa, “Reading”
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Two arrivals from my poetry book swaps. Still up for more swaps— I love chapbooks, old and new.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My review of Julia Thacker’s To Wildness (Waywiser Press, Anthony Hecht Award 2025 ) newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...
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A Review of To Wildness by Julia Thacker
By Carla Sarett
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
for Women’s History Month: “The Artist’s Daughters Outside the Sickroom” mine, published in The Mersey Review
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“After Swan Lake, Philadelphia”— published in Constellations.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“before the first frost” [first in Hamilton Stone Review]
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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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A Review of If Nothing by Matthew Nienow
By Carla Sarett
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A Frank O’Hara morning.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“Grief Therapy” published in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Five women holding hands and skipping together, 1935 by photographer by Toni Frissell #WomensArt #Fridayfeeling !
Monochrome photograph featuring five white women in skirts hand in hand joyfully skipping forward in a row while smiling
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Mine, from “Woman on the Run” …seems relevant today.
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“You are closer to me than flesh…” —Paul Zweig #poetry #poem #poems
You are closer to me than flesh,
You are the knot of loose ends I breathe;
A tear wept
In the closed weather of the stone.

Sometimes when I’m bored or sleepy
I can feel you under my eyelids,
Incredibly patient;
You take a lifetime to get from here to there.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happy Birthday, Frederick Seidel.
V E R M O N T




The attitude of green to blue is love.

And so the day just floats itself away.

The stench of green, the drench of green, above

The ripples of sweet swimming in a bay

Of just-mowed green, intoxicates the house.

The meadow goddess squeaking like a mouse

Is stoned, inhales the grass, adores the sky.

The nostrils feed the gods until the eye

Can almost see the perfume pour the blue.

A Botticelli ladled from a well,

Your life is anything you want it to —

And loves you more than it can show or tell.
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you’re seeking forgotten horror/gothic/unclassifiable, look at this U.K. publisher: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/
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Shoppe - Strange Attractor
Quality books, sounds and goodies from Strange Attractor, our friends and our allies
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
mine from @stonecoastreview.bsky.social “Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise”
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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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