Carrie Mcgath

author, small murders, Ward eighty-one, & Ohio Lonely

About Small Murders & Ward 81

Small Murders is Carrie McGath’s first collection of poems. It was published by New Issues Press in 2006. Her self-published chapbook, Ward Eighty-One is available now. Her next chapbook, Ohio Lonely will be available this fall. Carrie’s poems have appeared in several literary journals including Hiram Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Vallum, and Poetry Motel.

News

Seeking: Blurbs from readers to be published here!

Please email me your reader responses to Small Murders

and Ward Eighty-One to carrie@carriemcgath.com today!

Check Out the New Review of Small Murders on Her Circle Ezine.

Seeking: Poets who read from the page ... traditional poets ... to read at FIRE for the new Poets on the Page readings! Please email me if you are interested in being contacted with dates to be a poet for this wonderful and desperately needed reading series for the poets who seek the more traditional fare of the poetry reading.

My upcoming chapbook, Ohio Lonely, is in the close-to-that-first draft phase. This is an exciting little moment. It is beginning to learn to walk like a sweet soft baby, slow and determined.

Aaron Truby (confessional poet extraordinaire) and I have written several collaboration poems that are being collected toward the ultimate goal of a joint poetry collection.

The owners of Woodland Pattern Book Center have graciously agreed to my sending them copies of my chapbook, The Women of Ward 81. Please check out their site and donate if you can! This may be the BEST bookstore in the Midwest ... especially if you love poetry and small presses. Ward Eighty-One and Small Murders are also available at Michigan News Agency in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

I welcome visitors to check out my blogs. Anhedonia: The Poetry Life is a blog about just that -- the poetry life. Librarian in the Living Room is a blog about books and issues facing libraries.

I am currently working on my second full-length collection of poems, The Luck of Anhedonia. My second chapbook, Ohio Lonely, a 2-book series of poems inspired by my genealogy will be complete by fall of 2008. A book about domestic life and creativity focusing on the relationships and work of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick among other creative couples is also in the works. An essay on the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and a review of Frederick Seidel’s collection, Ooga Booga are on my to do list as well.

Thanks to everyone who attended my Art Hop at FIRE on July 11th. It was very important to me that so many people came and shared this important project,

Ohio Lonely, with me.

Exhibit photos will be posted soon.

Upcoming Reading

@ The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

I will be reading poems inspired

by the current local artists’ exhibit

on Friday, September 5th (Art Hop)

at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

More readings before September ...

Keep checking in!