It’s an absolute DREAM COME TRUE to have 2 poems in
@parisreview
! An unbelievable honor! Hands down my favorite lit mag. To be part of it is something I will treasure forever. Thrilled to share pages w/
@mwektaehtabr
,
@JoyceCarolOates
,
@dwaynebetts
+more. It’s ice cream time! 🥳
Big News!! W.W. NORTON is publishing my new book DISEASE OF KINGS in Fall 2023!🥳🎉🎊💫💫 Feeling profoundly grateful. HUGE THANKS to my agent Rob McQuilkin, my editor
@Jrbialosky
&
@wwnorton
for making this dream come true. If you’d like to host me on my Book Launch Tour, DM me!
I’m in THE SUN! Feels like a miracle to appear in one of my very favorite magazines. This poem is from my new book DISEASE OF KINGS forthcoming in Fall 2023 from
@wwnorton
. All my gratitude to
@TheSunMagazine
💜
My book has a cover!!!—and is available for PREORDER!!!: Profoundly grateful to the team at
@wwnorton
for this breathtaking design ✨✨ Special thanks to
@Jrbialosky
@edgarjameskunz
& MMQLIT. I CANNOT WAIT to share this book with all of you! 🥳💜🎉✨
Final copyedits on THE LOW PASSIONS, forthcoming from
@wwnorton
in FEB 2019. All my thanks to the amazing people at NORTON and to
@edgarjameskunz
for reading this book so many times 🙌🙌🙌
They’re here!!! DISEASE OF KINGS galleys arrived and I’m overwhelmed by how good they look 😍😍😍 If you want a review copy, DM me! 🙏💜 DISEASE OF KINGS drops on 10/03 from
@wwnorton
! 💫💫💫
It’s my birthday! This year I’m excited to celebrate some good news: I’m now represented by Rob McQuilkin at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Feeling especially grateful and especially ready for some cake 🎂🥳🎊✨
Honored to have my poem PRIMER on
@VandalPoem
. This poem is from my book THE LOW PASSIONS forthcoming from
@wwnorton
in FEB 2019. Thanks to
@poetrynw
for originally publishing it.
Bursting to share the cover for my forthcoming collection, I CAN’T TALK ABOUT THE TREES WITHOUT THE BLOOD,
@PittPoetry
! Massive shoutout to Terrance Hayes for his stunning painting, “I think imma' Nina Simone.” Pre-order link: // pub date: 9/18/18🙌🏾!
Thrilled to share my poem “Footprint” from New England Review (
@NERweb
). All my gratitude to
@BarotRick
for his generous support, and to everyone at NER. It’s an honor to share pages with
@MarkCWunderlich
,
@VChangPoet
, torrin a. greathouse, and many more.
Sometimes dreams come true: I read at
@Powells
with
@doriannelaux
&
@edgarjameskunz
!––Our names glowing on the marquee! What a completely magical experience. Feeling so much gratitude! 🙌🧡🥰
@Powells
was incredible💜such a joy to read with my best friend
@edgarjameskunz
& explore Portland! DISEASE OF KINGS is now out from
@wwnorton
—get it here:
Here’s my poem “Bones” from New England Review (
@NERweb
)—this a companion poem to “Footprint” which I shared recently. Hope you enjoy. Again, my gratitude to
@BarotRick
for believing in me, and to everyone at NER!
Today’s the day! THE LOW PASSIONS is out in Paperback! 😊❤️😊❤️ Ten years ago, if you’d told me I’d publish my debut collection with
@wwnorton
and see it available in both hardcover and paperback, I would have just about died. Order it here:
It’s my book’s birthday!🥳🎂In one year, THE LOW PASSIONS has taken me to more than half the states in the nation, for over 60 readings. I’m deeply grateful to all who've helped me usher my book into the world––THANK YOU! & huge sale happening (65% off!):
Huge Thanks to everyone who has sent me photos of their copies of THE LOW PASSIONS! I’ve been very moved to receive them. It’s still bewildering to have my book out in the world and hearing from all of you helps make it feel real. I’m deeply grateful! 🙌🥰✨✨
Winning the Poetry International Prize was such an overwhelming honor. Here’s “Cutting for Sign” selected by
@SherwinBitsui
for the prize, & now part of THE LOW PASSIONS. All my gratitude to Sherwin for believing in my work &
@PoetryIntl
for giving it an amazing home!🥰🥳✨✨✨
Endlessly grateful to
@doriannelaux
for her words of praise for THE LOW PASSIONS.
@doriannelaux
has been a powerful influence on my work, as well as an incredible mentor to me. Thank you, Dorianne! Pub Date: 04/12. Pre-Order:
Huge Thanks to NWMSU for hosting me for a reading from THE LOW PASSIONS! Thanks to the creative writing students who had dinner with me, the faculty who showed me around, and the photographer who took this photo of me. I had a great time! 🙌🥰💛✨
I had an absolute blast talking w/ the brilliant & generous,
@Deardarkness
about Natasha Trethewey, repentance, revision, ekphrasis, Vermeer, hot chicken, & MY FORTHCOMING BOOK for the
@NewYorker
poetry podcast—ahhhh! Listen here: 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I have 34 pages of new work. Going to spend the rest of the summer revising the drafts. I might have 40+ pages by late August.
My second book is coming together.
Whew!
Thrilled to have 2 new poems in
@southern_review
! It’s a beautiful issue & I’m honored to share pages with Jill Osier,
@MichaelMark
, Erika Meitner, Taije Silverman, Chelsea Wagenaar, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Bruce Bond,
@JamesLeeBurke
& more. My gratitude to
@jessicafaustTSR
!
ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to publish my first prose piece ever(!!!!!)🥳🎊✨+ it’s in
@TheSunMagazine
! + it’s a companion piece to my new book, DISEASE OF KINGS, out now from
@wwnorton
!✨✨Read my whole piece here:
It's a great pleasure to share this––
@edgarjameskunz
& I spoke with
@sewaneereview
about our literary friendship as the foundation of our writing lives. Love as creativity. Love as vision. Gratitude to
@adamrosswriter
,
@SpencerHupp
, & Sewanee for having us to campus to read! 😊✨
I'm so grateful for my children. I don't like to think about the person I might be if I'd never had them. They were both my little buddhas and they made me better. So here's a poem about being a dad... (And big love to Waxwing, for first giving it a home...)
Teacher friends! If you’re interested in teaching my new translation of THE POPOL VUH, (out in September 2018) let me know & I’ll try to connect you w/ an Advance Reading Copy. I love to visit classrooms! Now that summer beckons, get your hands on the Myth of the Americas!
Huge thanks
@doriannelaux
for making Quarantine Broadsides of my poem “Taken In”—what an honor!🥰The poem is from my book THE LOW PASSIONS (
@wwnorton
). Gratitude to
@georgedclark
and
@32_Poems
for originally publishing it. Read it here:
I’m off to read at the Southern Festival of Books! Honored to share poems from THE LOW PASSIONS, & looking forward to attending events with
@rosi_ruth
,
@_caradees_
, & more. My event is SATURDAY 1-2pm, Nashville Public Library Conference Room 3. Nashville friends, hope to see you!
New poem from DISEASE OF KINGS—this one is dedicated to my brother
@zxocw
. Huge thanks to
@VQR
for publishing a suite of 4. Honored to appear alongside Lydia Davis, Roger Reeves, Mary Jo Bang, & more. All my thanks to
@wwnorton
&
@Pardlo
. DISEASE OF KINGS drops on 10/03! 🥳🎉💜
Thrilled to be judging North Carolina’s 2020 NC State Poetry Contest, free to enter & open to ALL NC poets. Deadline: FEB 24. Thanks to
@doriannelaux
&
@EduardoCCorral
for inviting me! 🥳💥💛
THE LOW PASSIONS reviewed by
@kenyonreview
! “Trenchantly observed and moving…The Low Passions evinces a faith…in the stolid fiber of a people subjected to slow violence.”
Wow! THE LOW PASSIONS is
#4
on
@amazon
's New Releases in American Literature! I'm honored and overjoyed to be anywhere in the proximity of my poetry hero
@doriannelaux
and her
#1
New Release! (Thanks Dorianne for letting me know about this!) Pre-Order:
Galleys of THE LOW PASSIONS have arrived! I can't begin to say how moving it is to hold in my hands. If you'd like to REVIEW IT or TEACH IT, DM me & I'll get you a copy. W.W. Norton, 03/12/19. PRE-ORDER:
Profoundly grateful to
@commonmag
for interviewing me about DISEASE OF KINGS, life, poetry, friendship, & more🙏🥳🎉✨✨All my thanks to
@JoyBaglio
for this rich conversation. Read the full interview:
Grateful to
@AmPoetryReview
for publishing 5 poems from DISEASE OF KINGS, including "Cups," which is about love for a material item and love for the earth, among other things. DISEASE OF KINGS is forthcoming from
@wwnorton
on 10/03. Get it here:
Thrilled to be selected as the 2019 Connecticut Poetry Circuit Touring Poet––I’ll be reading from THE LOW PASSIONS at Connecticut universities next month. Honored to join past Circuit poets
@RobertPinsky
Martin Espada,
@mafiasafia
, James Merrill,
@aracelisxgirmay
, & Adrienne Rich
Thrilled to be on guest faculty at
@SolsticeMFA
!! I'll be reading tomorrow night at 7:30 EST with other faculty––hope you can make it! Here's the link to register for the event (free):
Awesome to see THE LOW PASSIONS reviewed by
@RainTaxiReview
: “This book carries both darkness and light and demands we not look away from what we have made of this world...Carlson-Wee has a true gift for narrative. The poems carve arcs toward illumination.”❤️🥰✨✨
Huge Thanks to
@VQR
for publishing 3 of my poems! Beautiful work in the issue by
@bethbachmann
,
@CPhillipsPoet
, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, + more. All my gratitude to
@Pardlo
for believing in my work. Pre-Order THE LOW PASSIONS:
Assistant editor
@SpencerHupp
interviews poets
@edgarjameskunz
and
@AndersWeePoet
about Nashville, teachers, and teaching; about the writers who have influenced them, and the ways that friendship can reconfigure the world of the self and one’s work.
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I’ve updated my website! New info, new reviews, new photos, new links to poems—plus event dates (thus far) for my Spring 2020 Book Tour. From the Homepage, you can follow links to some great sales on THE LOW PASSIONS right now! Check it out:
HUGE THANKS to
@TheSunMagazine
for interviewing me about DISEASE OF KINGS (
@wwnorton
) & my new piece in The Sun, “The Salmonella Special.”✨✨Read the interview here:
THE LOW PASSIONS reviewed by
@32poems
––“To read The Low Passions . . . is to inhabit a simulacrum of someone else’s mind.” All my thanks to
@rams830
for her beautiful and insightful words about my book, and to
@georgedclark
& 32 Poems! 🙌🥰✨✨
On Sept 14 at 6 pm ET, we're hosting our first fall virtual info session. Get answers to your questions before applying for our November deadline. Also, meet our Founding Director
@KearneyMeg
and Assistant Director and alum
@qcollinswriter
.
Register here:
Huge Thanks to New England Review (
@NERweb
) for featuring THE LOW PASSIONS in New Books by NER Authors! It's an amazing honor to be on this list with
@ValeriaLuiselli
,
@DavidBiespiel
, and more. Gratitude to Rick Barot and everyone at NER!
I’m honored and overjoyed to be judging
@SlipperyElmLJ
’s MULTIMEDIA CONTEST! Open to videopoems, hypertexts, illustrated stories, hybrid works, etc. Submissions are OPEN. Can’t wait to experience your mind-bending work! Follow this link:
We are thrilled to announce
@AndersWeePoet
as the judge of our 2019 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize! See some of Anders' selected works, view contest guidelines and previous featured finalists, and submit your own multimedia entry here:
THE LOW PASSIONS reviewed in
@EntropyMag
:
“Lines just begging to be tattooed across someone’s breastbone…Carlson-Wee make[s] the vagabond life sound like the most beautiful and dreadful existence imaginable.”
Gratitude to
@aarikdanielsen
!
Wow! THE LOW PASSIONS has been selected by the New York Public Library (
@nypl
) Book Group! Feeling very grateful + deeply honored to be paired with
@WilliePerdomo
's THE CRAZY BUNCH. NYC friends, hope you can check this out. Event is Thurs SEP 26, 6PM @ Everything Goes Book Cafe.
"I live the way I live in order to have time to create art. The culture doesn’t want me to do that."
@AndersWeePoet
speaks with
@JoyBaglio
about culture, craft, and his forthcoming collection DISEASE OF KINGS in this new interview.
Thrilled to have my poem "Old Church" featured in
@LAReview
's Best Of Edition! It's an honor to share the pages with
@laypay
,
@VChangPoet
,
@KendraDeColo
, and more. Thanks to everyone at The Los Angeles Review!
DISEASE OF KINGS Book Launch & Party is next week! 10/05. 7PM.
@skylightbooks
. Featuring Edgar Kunz, Michelle Bitting, F Douglas Brown, & me. Come hang! Bring friends! Will be a blast💥🥳🎉✨
THE LOW PASSIONS reviewed in
@WestBranchMag
: “What sets The Low Passions apart is its astounding confidence, its palpable self-awareness…There’s wonder and awe throughout these poems.” Great to be paired w/
@robottomulatto
&
@valenciarobin1
! ✨✨✨
Honored & overjoyed to blurb
@ToddBoss9
's beautiful new collection of poems––out now from
@wwnorton
––and doubly honored to see my words on the cover alongside blurbs from
@nye_naomi
,
@davidbakerpoet
, & Jim Moore! Grab a copy––you won't regret it.
Thrilled to be reading with Gregory Pardlo (
@Pardlo
) & Grace Schulman as part of the Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series at
@StellaAdlerNY
this Monday, FEB 3 in NYC. Much gratitude to everyone at Stella Adler for having us!
Like all authors, my spring book tour was cancelled due to coronavirus. Very sorry to miss you! If you’d like to support my work during this difficult time, you can order THE LOW PASSIONS from my website—for a signed copy, DM me!✨
This morning, poet Anders Carlson-Wee will be on our program! It should start any minute on 89.7 in Mankato. Not near your radio? No worries! You can TuneIn to
@AndersWeePoet
below, hosted by Connor Poff: