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Carrie Chappell
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Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her. IG: @chapp010
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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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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 3h
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.
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 4h
Thanks for being there 🤓
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 16h
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).
Sandra Moussempès with co-translators Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy Reading from Cassandra at point-blank range Sandra Moussempès in English translation by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy Sandra Moussempès with co-translators Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you for spending some time with it, Paris Heretics 🖤
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you, Stone Circle Review! I'm so grateful to be read by you!
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 5d
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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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 5d
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
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 5d
Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) - "Girl à feuilles caduques"
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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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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 5d
Having a deep-well, Walden nature moment with the digital bird sounds at Gare du Nord.
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 8d
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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sterling-elizabeth arcadia @selizabeth.bsky.social · 10d
“[…] 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.”
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d
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.)

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Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you for this digital embrace 🖤
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d
Am so glad I'll finally get to meet y'all!
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d
Looking forward to attending. Just got my ticket!
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d
En rose pour plaire à personne
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette.
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 11d
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...
Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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Paris Heretics @parisheretics.bsky.social · 12d
Listen to @chapp010.bsky.social's powerful tribute to Hélène Bessette, written at Bessette's graveside:

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Au tombeau d’Hélène Bessette
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 13d
It’s always such an important visit for them and me!
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Jason Stoneking @jstoneking.bsky.social · 13d
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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Quentin Lafay @quentinlafay.bsky.social · 18d
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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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · 28d
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.
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · Sep 9
Merci!
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · Sep 8
11 ans à Paris aujourd’hui.

« Je ne viens pas pour voir.
Ce que tout le monde vient voir. »
—Hélène Bessette
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · Sep 5
Sending positive thoughts to you and yours!
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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · Aug 28
@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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Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social · Aug 22
« …il faut allumer l’épouvantable impatience…» —Liliane Giraudon
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