EP 048: The Looking Glass: Poetry During Pandemic with Carla Sarett

Tonight we talked with writer Carla Sarett about how meditation informs her writing practice, her study of children's fantasy play, her novella The Looking Glass, and why she prefers a notebook over writing on a computer.

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Carla Sarett is a poet, essayist and fiction writer. Her recent poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, San Pedro River Review, Prole, ONE ART, The Virginia Normal, The Remington Review and elsewhere; her essays have been nominated for Best American Essays. She awaits publication of a novella, The Looking Glass, and in 2022, a novel, A Closet Feminist. Carla has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, and currently lives in San Francisco (but misses Philadelphia.). Learn more at https://carlasarett.blogspot.com/


Samples of Carla's work:

Poem: “Ruth’s Lily”
https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/ruth-s-lily-by-carla-sarett

Flash fiction: "At least five things"
https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2021/03/22/at-least-five-things/

Short fiction: "Prepared"
https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/prepared

Short fiction: "The Bad Luck"
https://acrossthemargin.com/the-bad-luck/

Poem: "dead my mother moves in"
https://www.wordsandwhispers.org/dead-my-mother-moves-in

Poem: "who jumped in the water"
https://www.bowerygothic.com/poetry-2020-4

Poem". "we used to watch The Searchers"
https://isacoustic.com/2020/09/28/person-carla-sarett-two-poems/

Essay: "No Margarets"
https://carlasarett.blogspot.com/2020/03/jewish-marys-or-more-about-names.html

Essay: "Mr. Helen"
https://carlasarett.blogspot.com/2019/05/mr-helen-by-carla-sarett.html

Essay: "Dmitri's Cat"
https://carlasarett.blogspot.com/2019/04/dmitris-cat.html

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