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Carla Sarett
@carlasarett.bsky.social
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)
Any Excuse for a Party: Interview
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Any Excuse for a Party: Interview
Interview with Susan Weinstein about my new chapbook
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thanks to Susan Weinstein for this fun interview about Any Excuse for a Party.

substack.com/@susanweinst...
June 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Oh Brian Wilson….
June 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Have a laugh. My piece, “The New Ninety”. in The Gorko Gazette

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We ate the usual Peking Duck and flew all over and then we were seventy and in-between.
thegorkogazette.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The World is Theirs (for #pride month)
June 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Reposted by Carla Sarett
Oof, yes.
April 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
So pleased to see Joan Kwon Glass’s wonderful collection win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. A book that has stayed with me.
Congratulations again to Joan Kwon Glass, winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry. This is the judges’ commentary for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, posted by The US Review of Books, from The Eric Hoffer Award panel. 🌟📖🎉 #hofferaward #perugiapress @joankwonglass.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Always Emily Dickinson. “Forever is composed of Nows.”
May 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Carla Sarett
"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
May 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
From my archive of silly poems, “If I Were a Woman in a Novel” (published in Lighten Up)
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes, we all need poems about Betty Boop and baby elephants…my new e-book’s out (hey, only $5)

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April 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
my poem about a dress….a Patrick Kelly dress. from Woman on the Run.
April 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My cento from lines of Richard Siken in JAKE today

jakethemag.com/i-am-holding...
I am holding this for you: cento
using lines drawn from Richard Siken, Crush and The War of the Foxes
jakethemag.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by KOSS appears in Trampoline today.
@diodeeditions.bsky.social

www.trampolinepoetry.com/reviews
Reviews — TRAMPOLINE
www.trampolinepoetry.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Maya Popa, “Reading”
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Two arrivals from my poetry book swaps. Still up for more swaps— I love chapbooks, old and new.
March 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My review of Julia Thacker’s To Wildness (Waywiser Press, Anthony Hecht Award 2025 )
newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...
A Review of To Wildness by Julia Thacker
By Carla Sarett
newversereview.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
for Women’s History Month:
“The Artist’s Daughters Outside the Sickroom”

mine, published in The Mersey Review
March 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“After Swan Lake, Philadelphia”— published in Constellations.
February 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“before the first frost”
[first in Hamilton Stone Review]
February 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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...
February 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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.
February 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A Frank O’Hara morning.
February 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM