Emily Carr

Emily Carr is one of four poets featured in Toadlily Press's 2009 Quartet Series, By the Way Of. She has also received awards from Writers at Work, So To Speak, Elixir Press, and Poets Out Loud and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of DIRECTIONS FOR FLYING: 36 FITS: A YOUNG WIFE'S ALMANAC: RIGHT SIDE LOWER ARMS RAISE ARMS BEND KNEES REPEAT ON LEFT (Furniture Press Books, 2010) and 13 WAYS OF HAPPILY: BOOKS 1 & 2 (Parlor Press, 2010). Her poetry has been published most...See more

Emily Carr is one of four poets featured in Toadlily Press's 2009 Quartet Series, By the Way Of. She has also received awards from Writers at Work, So To Speak, Elixir Press, and Poets Out Loud and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of DIRECTIONS FOR FLYING: 36 FITS: A YOUNG WIFE'S ALMANAC: RIGHT SIDE LOWER ARMS RAISE ARMS BEND KNEES REPEAT ON LEFT (Furniture Press Books, 2010) and 13 WAYS OF HAPPILY: BOOKS 1 & 2 (Parlor Press, 2010). Her poetry has been published most recently or is forthcoming in BOMBAY GIN, Interim, The Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gargoyle, Margie, Phoebe, Matrix, The Capilano Review, Dusie, ISLE, So To Speak, Caketrain, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and Versal. Emily has also published scholarly work on poetics, performance, and pedagogy in Jacket, HOW2, ISLE, and English Studies in Canada. See less