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Carla Sarett

@carlasarett.bsky.social

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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)

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jul 9

This has the correct audio file.

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jul 9

Any Excuse for a Party: Interview
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Any Excuse for a Party: Interview

Interview with Susan Weinstein about my new chapbook

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 20

@susaniweinstein.bsky.social

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 20

Personally NO

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 11

Brian Wilson was a true original— with a sense of melody few have equalled. .

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 11

Oh Brian Wilson….

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thank you so much Jessica!

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thanks much, Simeon!

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thanks much!

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 4

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.

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Jun 3

The World is Theirs (for #pride month)

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Apr 30

Oof, yes.

Opening

I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one-this
passing through.

—Tess Gallagher

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 30

Thanks to editor Jeffrey Heath.

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 30

Some new poems of mine here, including one of my Dickens centos.
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Three Poems by Carla Sarett

Unsent Postcard I own too many heirloom timepieces like the broken grandfather clock, it never strikes the hour properly, it lags a minute then longer so by mid- summer 9 a.m. it might be any hour.…

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 28

So pleased to see Joan Kwon Glass’s wonderful collection win the Eric Hoffer Book Award. A book that has stayed with me.

Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · May 20

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

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 15

One of the rare times my father chastised me was when I described a house as ugly. He said, sweetheart, someone lives in that house.

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 15

Always Emily Dickinson. “Forever is composed of Nows.”

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · May 13

"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

A photo of fir trees on a snowy mountain side. The sun peeks through a cloudy sky.

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 6

I would never erase a book…but I’m fine never reading The Old Man and the Sea again. .

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 5

Oh thank you….I do enjoy humor in poetry.

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · May 5

From my archive of silly poems, “If I Were a Woman in a Novel” (published in Lighten Up)

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Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thank you so much, I chose the painting by the great Judith Leyster (whose work went unrecognized for centuries.)

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Apr 29

And thanks to @hobocampreview.bsky.social @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social + other great editors.

Carla Sarett @carlasarett.bsky.social · Apr 29

Yes, we all need poems about Betty Boop and baby elephants…my new e-book’s out (hey, only $5)

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