Carla Sarett
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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)
Thanks to Susan Weinstein for this fun interview about Any Excuse for a Party.

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June 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Oh Brian Wilson….
June 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The World is Theirs (for #pride month)
June 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Always Emily Dickinson. “Forever is composed of Nows.”
May 15, 2025 at 3:41 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
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
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
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
“Grief Therapy” published in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mine, from “Woman on the Run” …seems relevant today.
February 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As for 5, you might enjoy this poem of mine:
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
just cannot resist such a book
February 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mine from @stonecoastreview.bsky.social “Self-Portrait as Aging Tortoise”
February 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Looking for poetry book swaps, especially chapbooks. If yours is newish, I may review it. DM if you’re up for it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“At Midnight, The Fox Sisters Hear Taps in Their Bedroom”— from New Verse Review.
February 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Time for a laugh, “I Defeat the Woodpecker.”
February 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
for Valentine’s Day, “The World is Theirs” —

[published in Discretionary Love]
February 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Because we all need a sad cat poem.
February 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My chap, My Family Was Like a Russian Novel, has a second printing….so signed copies are available again. I always prefer book swaps.
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM