Carrie Chappell
@chapp010.bsky.social
Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
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Carrie Chappell
@chapp010.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Excited to be with you here and to start my feed with news about my next adventure in writing and reading. I’m now officially a doctoral student in French Literature at CY Cergy Paris University, where I‘ll be working on a research-creation project around the novels-in-verse of Hélène Bessette. 🖤
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We’re so delighted to be hosting our first Pop-up Salon in Paris tonight! Hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @kplumhoff.bsky.social, it features wonderful readers from all over Europe
Read about them here: 👇
Read about them here: 👇
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We’re so delighted to be hosting our first Pop-up Salon in Paris tonight! Hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @kplumhoff.bsky.social, it features wonderful readers from all over Europe
Read about them here: 👇
Read about them here: 👇
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Two more days!! 💙
We can't wait! We've got such a great lineup of readers, including @philippabowe.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social and many more.
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
Only 3 days!
Can't wait to see everyone and hear your beautiful words
❤️🎤❤️
Can't wait to see everyone and hear your beautiful words
❤️🎤❤️
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Two more days!! 💙
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We can't wait! We've got such a great lineup of readers, including @philippabowe.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social and many more.
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
Only 3 days!
Can't wait to see everyone and hear your beautiful words
❤️🎤❤️
Can't wait to see everyone and hear your beautiful words
❤️🎤❤️
the eiffel tower is lit up at night
Alt: the eiffel tower is lit up at night
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November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We can't wait! We've got such a great lineup of readers, including @philippabowe.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social and many more.
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤
Say hi if you are coming 👋
Poème perdu de pressing
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Poème perdu de pressing
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On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.
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Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!
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.
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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.
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Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi.
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi.
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
For all the girlhoods usurped me, guess I’ll write their hundred women.
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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.
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Billy Joel Goth is what I’ve been carrying on the inside.
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.
October 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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.
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).
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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).
Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶
I am delighted to announce Stone Circle's 2026 Best of the Net nominees. Please take a moment to enjoy their wonderful poems again (links are below).
And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.
#BotN #BestOfTheNet
And please join me in congratulating them and wishing them the best of luck.
#BotN #BestOfTheNet
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Touched to learn my erotic ecosonnet was nominated for Best of the Net by @stonecirclereview.bsky.social. Many thanks to Editor @leepottspoet.bsky.social 🩶
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Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
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#BotN #BestOfTheNet
stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet
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...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet
stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
#BotN #BestOfTheNet
Having a deep-well, Walden nature moment with the digital bird sounds at Gare du Nord.
October 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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.
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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“[…] 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.”
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.”
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.)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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September 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
“[…] 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.”
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.”
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.)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
m.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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.)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
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Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEL9...
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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. 🙏
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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. 🙏
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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...
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.
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September 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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.
September 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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.
11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui.
« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette
« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui.
« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette
« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette
@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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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…
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August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@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
www.lavenderink.org/site/announc...
www.lavenderink.org/site/announc...