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. 🖤
Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.
Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.
January 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.
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Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...
March 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...
bonne année by Carrie Chappell
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January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.
These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?
Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.
Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)
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“The two sides of a secret are repression and expression, just as the two sides of the poem are the told and the untold.”
-- Mary Ruefle
-- Mary Ruefle
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“The two sides of a secret are repression and expression, just as the two sides of the poem are the told and the untold.”
-- Mary Ruefle
-- Mary Ruefle
Mercredi prochain, je participerai à une réflexion collective sur les écrivaines de la précarité. Je présenterai à cette occasion ma recherche sur l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, et en particulier les idées formelles qui se cristallisent dans Ida ou le délire (1973). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Écrivaines ouvrières, paysannes et précaires. Contribution à une histoire littéraire de l’émancipation au XXe s. (Lille)
« Écrivaines ouvrières, paysannes et précaires. Contribution à une histoire littéraire de l’émancipation au XXe siècle » Journée d’études Université de Lille - Campus Pont-de-bois 3 décembre 2025 Mais...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mercredi prochain, je participerai à une réflexion collective sur les écrivaines de la précarité. Je présenterai à cette occasion ma recherche sur l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, et en particulier les idées formelles qui se cristallisent dans Ida ou le délire (1973). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️
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 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️
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A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Call of Air | Sylvie Kandé, Nancy Naomi Carlson
Accursed would you go as far as to covetyour neighbor’s long-gone past...Melancholy this sixth sense!No the appetite for things ebbingalready leaves a
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November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...
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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.