Ecofeminist Love Poet | Activist Teacher | Maker | Tarot Storyteller
Emily Carr lives in Florida. She’s passionate about the rediscovery of Mississippi poet besmilr brigham, the sexual politics of meat, the limits of Achilles’ honesty and the problem of Chaucer’s spring, un-posted love letters, cannibal chickens and a ship too late to save the drowning witch.
Carr has been named a finalist in seven national book contests, including the National Poetry Series. Her second collection, 13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 & 2 (Parlor Press 2011), was chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the 2009 New Measures Poetry Prize. Her third collection, whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet—, inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the Ale Apothecary.
Carr has received fellowships from the the Studios of Key West, Caldera Arts, Chalkhill, Vermont Studio Center, the Jack Kerouac House, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Writers in the Heartland, and Camac Centre d’Art. Carr received her BA from the University of Missouri, her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and her Ph.D. from the University of Calgary.
Books
Name Your Bird Without A Gun: a Tarot romance | Spork | 2019
whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet— | McSweeney’s | 2016
13 Ways of Happily: books 1 & 2 | Parlor Press | 2010
directions for flying | Furniture Press | 2009
Read Emily’s Work Online
four crossword poems from The Stork Rides Shotgun: statistically significant poems in Tupelo Quarterly
excerpts from whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet— in Front Porch
essay on the making of whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet— in Lithub
excerpts from Name Your Bird Without A Gun: a Tarot Romance in A Bad Penny Review
excerpts from Name Your Bird Without A Gun: a Tarot Romance in Web Conjunctions
excerpts from Trois Versions de L’inavouble: The Autopsy Lyrics in APT
excerpts from The Emergency of Feeling Manual in Tarpaulin Sky
a micro essay and concrete poem in Mina Loy: Negotiating the Avant Garde
as Poet-in-Residence for the Source Weekly’s “This Perfect Day” feature
a seldom stand-alone poem in Under A Warm Green Linden
a lyric essay on eating disorders and family politics in Better Lit & Culture
Chapbooks
Stay This Moment: The Autopsy Lyrics | Little Red Leaves Textile Series | Acts 1 & 2 | 2013 | Acts 3 & 4 |2015
Name Your Bird Without A Gun | Tarpaulin Sky | 2015
Napoleon’s Cannonballs | Fairytale Review | 2013
Resurrection Refrains | Dancing Girl press | 2013
Up the Shinbone Superlatives | horseless press | 2012
The Weights of Heaven | Western Humanities Review | 2011
eve/ in exile | International Studies in Literature & the Environment | 2010
Selected Awards & Magazine Publications
The Capilano Review Biofiction Prize Winner | 2019
Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence Finalist | 2012, 2013, 2018, 2019
Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Short List | 2019
So To Speak Poetry Contest First Runner-Up | 2018
Member in the Spotlight | 2016 | Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Poems, Essays, Quizzes, Crosswords & Other Hybrid Forms Appearing In…
the American Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, the Capilano Review, Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, the Tampa Review, the Notre Dame Review, Miracle Monocle, Tammy, Birdfeast, Interim, Tarpaulin Sky, So To Speak, Atticus Review, Digital Mina Loy, The Operating System, the Source Weekly, APT, Green Linden, Typo, Mortar, Noon, Bedfellows, Contemporary Verse, witchcraft magazine, Tuesday: An Art Project, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Lithub, A Bad Penny Review, Posit, Loose Change, Feminist Wire, Front Porch, Interim, CV2, the Fiddlehead, Green Mountains Review, TYPO, Gargoyle, & Better Lit & Culture, Prism International, Grain, Prairie Fire, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Peacock, Feminist Studies, Web Conjunctions, Alice Blue, Blackbox Manifold, Cutbank, LUNGFULL!, Free Verse, The Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Phoebe, the Black Warrior Review, Fourteen Hills, dusie, Interim, International Studies in Literature & the Environment, the Antigonish Review, the Fiddlehead, Margie, Caketrain, the Antigonish Review, 6 by 6, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Dirty Napkin, Bombay Gin, Dusie , noon, Versal, Echolocation, Isotope, NOON: an Anthology of Short Poems, Choice Words Anthology, 78 Anthology
Where I’m Writing From
I’m working on a collection of poems, The Stork Rides Shotgun: Statistically Significant Poems, and a hybrid collection of prose, The Emergency of Feeling Manual. These manuscripts forage into:
the heart of fact and the fact of heart
the moral distinctions and ambiguities around issues (such as fertility and body image) that continue to be subject-defining choices for women
the kinds of stories we just don’t tell (like surviving suicide and forgiving yourself for infidelity)
post-traumatic stress growth as an alternative to that peculiar narrative of adults as survivors
the kinds of linguistic flexibility and imaginative sympathy necessary to break our habit of objectifying—coopting, colonizing, exploiting—our world and ourselves
intersections of intellect and intuition, theory and passion, scholarship and play
aesthetic spaces where subjectivity and objectivity, the associative and the scientific mingle in mutual redefinition
poetic forms in which the reader actually, actively participates in the making of meaning, choosing her own reading experience
the crossword poem™
re-envisioning the lyric as an event
