Carrie Etter

Dr. Carrie Etter (1969-) is an American poet, originally from Normal, Illinois, who moved to Southern California at the age of 19 and on to London in 2001. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University [ [http://ecs.bathspa.ac.uk/staff/creative-studies/carrie-etter.htm School of English and Creative Studies Faculty page] ] . In the UK, her poems have appeared in "Metre", "Poetry Wales", "Poetry Review", "Reactions", "Thumbscrew", "The Times Literary Supplement", and elsewhere, while in the US her poems have appeared in "Aufgabe", "Barrow Street", "Columbia", "Meridian", "The New Republic", "Seneca Review", and many other journals. She is also an essayist and a critic. Her reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in "The Liberal", "New Welsh Review", "Poetry Matters", "The Times Literary Supplement", and "Verse".

Dr. Etter holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire for 2003-2004, teaching short-story writing and literature.

Bibliography

Books (collected poetry)

* "Say Mercy" (ed. by Steve Boyett, Sneaker Press, November 1992)
* "Subterfuge of the Unrequitable" (Potes & Poets Press, July 1998)
* "Yet" (2008, Leafe Press)
* "The Tethers" (upcoming in 2009 from Seren Books)
* "Divining for Starters" (upcoming in 2010 from Shearsman Books)

Poems

* "The Cult of the Eye" ("Poetry Review", Winter 2002/2003, reprinted in [http://www.thepoem.co.uk/limelight/etter.htm "Limelight 4", November 2003] )
* "The Daughters of Prospero" ("The Times Literary Supplement", 14 February 2003, reprinted in [http://www.thepoem.co.uk/limelight/etter.htm "Limelight 4", November 2003] )
* "Red Acre" ( [http://jacketmagazine.com/22/etter-poems.html "Jacket magazine", May 2003] )
* "Midnight, Illinois" ( [http://jacketmagazine.com/22/etter-poems.html "Jacket magazine", May 2003]
* "Infidel’s Prayer" ( [http://jacketmagazine.com/22/etter-poems.html "Jacket magazine", May 2003]
* "His Pantoum" (Times Literary Supplement, June 2007; written for her father and [http://carrieetter.blogspot.com/2007/09/henry-ross-etter-turns-67.html posted on her blog] )

Prose poetry

* "The Fever Box" ( [http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman65_66/etter.html Shearsman magazine issue 65/66", April 2005] )
* "The National Muse" ( [http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman65_66/etter.html Shearsman magazine issue 65/66", April 2005] )
* "Accounts" ( [http://shadowtrain.com/id234.html Shadowtrain March-April, 2008] )
*"The Tree" ( [http://shadowtrain.com/id234.html Shadowtrain March-April, 2008] )
*"Pink" ( [http://shadowtrain.com/id234.html Shadowtrain March-April, 2008] )
*"American Collectors;a painting by David Hockney" ( [http://shadowtrain.com/id234.html Shadowtrain March-April, 2008] )

Essays

Dr. Etter has published essays on W.B. Yeats and Sherman Alexie in "W.B. Yeats and Post-Colonialism" and "Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures", respectively. [ [http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/about/profiles/profile.asp?user=academic%5Cettc1 academic profile] ]

References

External links

* [http://carrieetter.blogspot.com/ Carrie Etter's personal blog]