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.

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 series of poems inspired by my genealogical art study by the same name, will be complete this fall. A book about domestic life and creativity tentatively titled, As We Vacuum the Living Room, focuses on the relationships and work of creative couples from Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, to Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, among others.

Upcoming Art Hop Reading

@ The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

I will be reading poems inspired

by the current exhibit, Perspectives on Place,

on Friday, September 5th (Art Hop) at 6:00p

at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

Come to the KIA for art, poetry, music and refreshment.

Books will be available for signing & purchase.