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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 05/05/2026

Delighted to have a new Hélène Bessette poem — bluesy, pantoumy, linguistically achy — in the latest issue of Painted Bride Quarterly. You can read the full piece here as well as listen to my audio recording of it: pbqmag.org/carrie-chapp...

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 15/04/2026

Aujourd’hui : « Écritures en circulation mémoire, langues, filiations », le premier séminaire de l'axe 4 en recherche-création du laboratoire Héritages. (Vous pouvez assister en personne ou en ligne mais vous devez vous inscrire: heritages.cyu.fr/version-fran... )

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 27/03/2026

Le 1 avril, à 20h le Gang du roman poétique — Anaïs de Courson, Claudine Hunault, Cédric Jullion, Rémi Letourneur, Benoît Virot et moi-même — sera à la Librairie Nouvel Équipage pour parler de l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, à l’heure où le sentiment fasciste progresse en Europe et ailleurs.

Soirée Hélène Bessette, Libraire Nouvel Équipage, 1 avril 2026

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 18/02/2026

"Translated with an astute attention to detail, and crisp, continuous tonality, Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy have offered us a glimpse into the amorphous and readily engaged mind of Moussempès..." -Greg Bem, on Cassandra at point-blank range: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

Exacting Clam, No. 20, Spring 2026 cover

Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (translated by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy) cover

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 27/01/2026

Special guesting at SpokenWord Paris last night…

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 26/12/2025

These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 12/12/2025

Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 11/12/2025

Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)

Poster for Paris Heretics 5-year anniversary party at Point Éphémère December 16, 2025. Designed by Lucas Lecacheur.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 18/11/2025

Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...

Carrie Chappell reading Hélène Bessette’s Histoire du chien

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 01/11/2025

Thank you to Editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social for selecting my poem - " 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' " written after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire - to appear in Issue 71 of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. I'm honored to share these pages with so many wonderful poets and artists.

Carrie Chappell with Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire.

Carrie Chappell's poem, 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire.

Continuation of Carrie Chappell's poem, 'Dans ces beiges très confortables.,' after Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire.

A page from Hélène Bessette's Ida ou le délire.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 29/10/2025

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

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 18/10/2025

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

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 08/10/2025

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).

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

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 30/09/2025

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.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 08/09/2025

11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui. « Je ne viens pas pour voir. Ce que tout le monde vient voir. » —Hélène Bessette

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 22/08/2025

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

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 11/08/2025

Chicorée Au bord du jour, je Frôle le pâle azur domptant La fougue de nos nuits. #poèmestibles

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 04/08/2025

Poème de la craie bleue de tailleur

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 24/07/2025

Full week of rain in Paris, and I’d like to petition the engineer-entrepreneurs of this world to help me conceptualize a "book poncho."

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 19/07/2025

Poetry & hybrid writing from contemporary French women writers! Amanda Murphy & I will be presenting our co-translation of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès alongside Laura Mullen who will be releasing her translation of something happens by Stéphanie Chaillou. 2pm CST & 21h CEST.

something happens at point-blank range online translation event hosted by Lavender Ink / Diálogos.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 16/06/2025

"Or it could be said when imagination catches fire, it ends up a fuse and political." -Nicole Brossard, translated by Barbara Godard

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 22/05/2025

Hier, je crois, si c’est encore moi, l’être qui aurait survécu à tous les nous de majesté.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 21/05/2025

Nicole Brossard, translated by Barbara Godard. The first time I’ve loved a translation. Most of the time I get stuck in the blues of them.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 06/05/2025

I wrote the first "Motherhood Poem" last year, against the genre, against the preciousness of your regard. They are my "crunchy" motherhood poems as Lisa Pasold dubbed them. Thank you to Westerly Magazine for publishing this first batch. Order the issue (hard copy or PDF) at the link in comments.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 01/04/2025

With Amanda Murphy, I am delighted to share the publication of our co-translation, Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès, out today from Diálogos. It's a bilingual edition & full of funky poetics from an awesome French poet you should be reading: www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...

Cover image for Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès (translated from the French by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy)

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 07/02/2025

This is my abortion/miscarriage/pregnancy story. There are many fronts to be organizing on right now, but trans rights, reproductive justice, & women's health are so critical. Bodily autonomy & gender affirming care are beautiful for everyone. (📷 Laura Stevens) ndrmagarchive.org/nonfiction/2...

Image to accompany "A Pregnancy of One's Own" by Carrie Chappell. Photo by Laura Stevens.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 13/01/2025

Poème de la retouche antalons Tee shir s Maillots d bain Ridea x raps Couss ins

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 06/01/2025

Dream come true to visit Bluebird Cafe last night. Got to hear Goldpine in the round, with Radney Foster and J.D. Graham. Kassie sang her Alabama song in the final round and brought me to tears.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 01/01/2025

Bringing back the show choir earrings.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 20/12/2024

A new essay, Part II from my Venice experience, was written to honor the intellect of my feelings, even those of retrospect, in hopes of expanding notions around forms of witness & acknowledging the ever-real tyrant of patriarchal denial. www.spiritualmaterial.substack.com

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 11/12/2024

« Avec l’Occident présent le drame. » -Hélène Bessette, La Grande Balade

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 10/12/2024

"The poem likes a dank hole" -Carolyn Hembree, FOR TODAY

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 03/12/2024

I love finishing a book before anyone else wakes up. Sandra’s "(Post-face) Ghost-writing" is incredible. Currently writing an article in French (*puddle of sweat emoji) on her use of "the double" in this text and the one I co-translated with Amanda Murphy.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 23/11/2024

I shared this one once on theotherplace, but it must resurface. Sarah Vap. Page 197 in _Winter: Effulgences & Devotions_ (2019), Noemi Press.

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Carrie Chappell @handle.invalid · 15/11/2024

Just got my Twitter/X archive and found this old picture. This silhouette of the strange, lonely girl I was in 2014-2015, my first full-year in France. Self-portrait as chambre de bonne.

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