Curriculum Vita
Laura Carter
219-A Lowry Street
Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 245-5386
EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2007)
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Concentration in Poetry
Bachelor of Arts in English (2001)
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Concentration in Literature
Distinction in Major
CHAPBOOK PUBLICATIONS:
Dear Angelou, WonderRoot/Loose Change, 2016.
Beginning of Way, ShirtPocket, 2014.
Chaos Provisions, Dancing Girl, 2014.
Midheaven Leo, Dancing Girl, 2011.
Terrarium of the Frame, Grey/Wildlife, 2009.
At the Pulse, Greying Ghost, 2008.
Situations, Ungovernable (Sweden), 2008.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS:
“Locational, Exact,” Ladyfest Lit Zine.
“Fair in Love and War,” “The Poem,” Deer Bear Wolf.
From Good Horse, 45th Parallel.
“[In the beginning],” “[She wrote the word for ordinary],”“[The good things fall apart],”“[I didn't know what to believe],” Bleux Stockings Society zine.
From Good Horse, Really System.
“[If you were more elastic],” Muse/A.
“[The boys put the sun in their bellies at noon],” By and By.
“[The regulations…],” “[In a beginning…],” The Birds We Piled Loosely.
“In Lieu of an Introduction, Beginning Fragments,” Ladyfest Lit Zine.
“And Then She Was Born from the Tragic,” Poet and Geek.
From This Is My Libertine Story, Loose Change.
From There Is No Wayward Palace, Talisman.
From This Is My Libertine Story, Creative Thresholds.
“The Throat, The Voice,” Day One.
“Lost Fire,” There.
“A Hunger,” “How to Remove an Iron from a New Tongue,” La Vague Journal.
“Essay: Steel, Glass, and Concrete,” “Critic's Analytics,” The South Dakota Review.
“At Six,” The Hat.
“Homing,” “Song,” “Into an Animal Bone,” “Almost in Advance,” Unlikely Stories.
“day” and “she,” Loose Change.
“Desire for an Object Always Implies This,” LEVELER.
Selections from There Is No Wayward Palace, Cricket Online Review.
8 from Close Space/Close Reverie/Close Air, New South.
“Most Probably, A Stage Was Lit With Electrics,” Indefinite Space.
“A Beginning of a New Hint,” TYPO.
“One Begs a Movement: Two Is a Century in a Crevice,” “Eviscerate Knife,” MadHat Lit.
4 and 6 from Close Space/Close Reverie/Close Air, Whiskey Island.
“Imaginary Obeisance, or, An Abeyance in Ellipse That You Have Known Together (A Tunnel Love),” The Jivin’ Ladybug.
“Essay: From Power You Go, To Power You Come,” “Possibly a Given Is a Form of Renunciation,” Futures Trading.
“With-With-In,” “Temper Hope With Caution,” E-ratio Poetry Journal.
“A Man Loves Anchors,” Experimental-Experimental-Literature.
“Which First?,” Snow Monkey.
9-17 from Close Space/Close Reverie/Close Air, Deer Bear Wolf.
“Schuyler,” The Kenyon Review.
“On Equivalence,” The Stray Branch.
“New Neutrino,” Sundog.
Selections from There Is No Wayward Palace, last section, SLAB Journal.
“If There Is a Simple Way to Avert,” “A Bodhisattva’s Last Nature,” “Museum Lore,” “In a Beginning, a Dandelion Looks Like Spinoza’s God,” “Spinoza’s God Falls,” Eye on Life Magazine.
“The Boat’s Eye,” Womanorial First edition.
“Image Recorded as Stillness Instrument,” n/a.
Selections from There Is No Wayward Palace, section one, Riveter Review.
Selections from What the Sun Thought, Tarpaulin Sky.
“Notes on Conceptualisms and Affects: A Series of Axioms (in Andante),” The Fanzine.
“We May Rely, But What About I?,” Womanorial Self i.e. edition.
“After Analog,” “After Half,” “What Is a Return,” Eyedrum Periodically.
“Farther On,” Josephine Quarterly.
“Evocation,” “Hawk,” BESTONED.
“Manifesto: On Persuasion,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
“The City’s Fracture,” Whiskey Island.
Response to Sandra Simonds’s “Dismantle the Cradle,” ILK.
“Phenomenology,” “Poem,” ILK.
“Form,” Aesthetix.
“Manifesto: Markets, Exchange,” The Lattice Inside: An Atlanta Poets Group Anthology.
“Poem,” “Poem,” Berkeley Poetry Review
“The Poem,” Broad River Review.
“Second Self,” The Centrifugal Eye.
“Love and History,” “Nestle,” Eleven Eleven.
45 and 46 from Close Space/Close Reverie/Close Air, 751 Magazine.
“Genesis,” Poets for Change Chapbook.
“Old Dream of Symmetry,” “Copula,” Radioactive Moat.
“The Panorama,” The Delinquent.
“On Ideas,” Organs of Voice and Speech.
“Who Is the King of Birds?,” “X X Y Y Z,” Anobium.
“N/O,” Magnapoets.
“A Fact,” MAYDAY Magazine.
“Discrete Entities,” Enizagam.
“Slate,” “Song in V,” “Space,” “Speak Work to Leisure,” Rem Magazine.
“Breaking Crystal,” “Brocade,” “Campo Campagne Afterlife Phobia,” Hamilton Stone Review.
“Room,” “Telling the Light,” Stickman Review.
“On the Face of the Door,” The Windsor Review.
“Manifesto: She (Returning Thicket),” “Love,” Suisun Valley Review.
“[Untitled],” TYPO.
“The Poem,” Broad River Review.
“History: ‘I Dreamed of the Wheel, and You Were There, My Love,’” Bluestem.
“Manifesto: Perception/Distance,” Up the Staircase.
“Poem,” Untitled Country Review.
“A Treatise/A Book of Papers,” Nighthawk Review.
“The Time,” Property Press pamphlet, Despite Fall’s Knock.
“III. The Made,” from Destructible Heaven, Hambone.
“And Finally It Has Come to This. And Finally It Has Come to These Things,” Everyday Genius.
“Missionary Headshot Sex,” Momoware.
“Nothing’s Ferry,” “Ridden from Hunt to Hare I Place a Lock of Hair in the Obsolete Nothing,” “To Sleep Is to Be Indifferent to This Landscape; Not to Sleep Is to Refuse to Take It in Refraction,” The Equalizer.
“Poem for Swans,” Lily.
Excerpts from Empire of Sense, Cannot Exist.
“The Making of a Love Thing,” Cannibal.
“Alighted,” Minor American.
“Gesture and Movement,” The Hat.
“Alphabetic,” “Auroral,” “The End of Summer,” Sawbuck.
“Manifesto: Thoughts of Theory,” storySouth.
“First Critique” and “Swan,” Taiga.
“Systems,” “Strategy: A Story,” “Strategy: The Mix,” and “Stratagem,” Horse Less Review.
“14 Variations on Italian Songs,” Haz Mat Review.
19-24 from Close Space/Close Reverie/Close Air, Tarpaulin Sky.
“Poem for Swans,” Lily.
“The Boat’s Eye,” “My Philosophy About Driving on Highways Where Wars Have Occurred,” “Archival,” EOAGH.
“Of Surface” and “Nature,” Shampoo.
“Of Constellations (Reassertion),” CAB/NET Journal.
“Bricolé,” TYPO.
“The Rule of the Conjecture,” “No,” “Yes,” and “Ash,” Cannibal.
“Either” and “O Come & Do Not Take the Sound,” The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel.
“Force,” Coconut.
“Dove in Hunkering,” Bathhouse.
“Untitled,” Quarter After Eight.
“It Is Possible,” Mantis.
“[Away, Away with the proper balm]” and “[It seemed the brightest spot],” Free Verse.
“King Memorial,” International Poetry Review.
“Memory of You,” Memorious.
“If Not,” Rattle.
“The Difficult Winter,” Ellipsis.
“Aberdeen,” Ellipsis.
“Father” and “Nativity Poem,” GSU Review.
REVIEW AND INTERVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
The Hearts of Vikings by Lesley Yalen at Yemassee.
Static and Snow by Brian Henry at Tarpaulin Sky.
Commentary Pages at Jacket2 (interviews with small presses).
Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer at Jacket2.
Heliopause by Heather Christle at Jacket2.
Red Epic by Joshua Clover at Atticus Review.
Hello, My Meat by Daniel Beauregard at Galatea Resurrects.
called by Kate Greenstreet at Galatea Resurrects.
The Barons by Joshua Corey at Atticus Review.
Change Machine by Bruce Covey at Atticus Review.
Rain of the Future by Valerie Mejer at The Fanzine.
Companion Grasses by Brian Teare at H_NGM_N.
Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy by Joshua Corey at The Fanzine.
Brink by Shanna Compton at H_NGM_N.
Month of Big Hands by Andrew Morgan at Atticus Review.
Can It! by Edmund Berrigan at Atticus Review.
Liner Notes by Andy Mister at The Fanzine.
Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević at The Fanzine.
Science by Emily Toder at The Fanzine.
of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures by Jenny Boully at The Fanzine.
MOODS by Rachel B. Glaser at Atticus Review.
Irritant by Darby Larson at The Fanzine.
Hold It Down by Gina Myers at The Fanzine.
Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn by Kristin Prevallet at H_NGM_N.
A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World by Adam Clay at H_NGM_N.
Pop Corpse by Lara Glenum at The Fanzine.
Haute Surveillance by Johannes Göransson at The Fanzine.
Portuguese by Brandon Shimoda at The Fanzine.
Young Tambling by Kate Greenstreet at The Fanzine.
One by Blake Butler, Christopher Higgs, and Vanessa Place at The Fanzine.
Hider Roser by Ben Mirov at The Fanzine.
Break, Heart; Break! by The Mad Flight at Frontier Psychiatrist.
Baby Geisha by Trinie Dalton at The Fanzine.
Pinko by Jen Benka at The Fanzine.
The Trees, The Trees by Heather Christle at The Fanzine.
Late in the Antenna Fields by Alan Gilbert at The Fanzine.
For Girls by Shanna Compton at Bloof Books.
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler at The Fanzine.
The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum at The Burning Chair.
REVIEWS OF MY WORK:
Allen Bramhall Reviews Situations at Galatea Resurrects.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
In Praise of Anne Boyer at The Operating System.
Elegy for Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012 at The Fanzine.
POETRY PRESENTATIONS:
Creative Reading: Poetry, Bleux Stockings Society, Vol. 2: Strange, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2016. With Melissa Barnes, Natalia Castells-Esquivel, Daisy Johnston, Kendra Myers, Kelly Reardon, Stephanie Roman, Abby Shomaker, Lauren Vogelbaum, and Elodie Westover.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Tipple + Poesy: Persona Night, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2016. With Sara Amis, Allen Jones, Emily Leithauser, Stephanie Roman, and Han Vance.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Tipple + Poesy: Ladies Night, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2015. With Theresa Davis, Katie DeCantillon, Beth Gylys, Karen Paul Holmes, Andrea Jurjević, Anna Sandy, and Sheri Mann Stewart.
Creative Reading: Poetry, “Tipple + Poesy” Poetry Night, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2015. With Greg Emilio, Marissa Kelly Hewatt, Kodac Harrison, and Josh Martin.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Gilbert St. Series #3, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2015. With Isabel Harding, Jason Kesler, Billy Mueller, Ellie Pourbohloul, and Grant Wallace.
Creative Reading: Poetry, New Writers, New Worlds: A Reading at WonderRoot, Atlanta, Georgia, June, 2015. With Isabel Harding and Iman Person.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Pop Up ATL, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2015. With Christeene Alcosiba, Chelsea Dunn, Michael Hessel-Mial, Amanda Huckins, Ismael Loutfi, Giovanna Olmos, Phoebe Perry, Dayne Serdling, Samm Severin, Matthew Sherling, and Grace Thornton.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Loose Change issue release, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2015. With Bruce Covey and Megan Volpert.
Creative Reading: Poetry, 5th Annual Valentine’s Salon at Poem 88, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 2015. With Robin Bernat, Misty Harper, Michael Hessel-Mial, Jimmy Lo, and Kevin Sipp.
Creative Reading: Poetry, SP CE @YOLKspace, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2014. With some others.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Vida Voce, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2014. With Anna Dausman, Chelsea Dunn, Jessica Handler, Haley Murphy, and Grace Thornton.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Natural Selection, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2014. With Adrian Barrera, Cristen Conger, DIP, Jason Elliott, Gage Gilmore, and Jason Mallory.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Poetry at Poem 88, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2014. With some others.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Poetry House Reading, Atlanta, Georgia, June, 2014. With Zack Haber, Michael Hessel-Mial, Gina Myers, Matthew Sherling, and Nathan Keele Springer.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Vida Voce, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2014. With Robin Bernat, Aria Curtis, Paige Sullivan, and Adelaide Tai.
Creative Reading: Poetry, D I R T Y S O U T H, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2014. With Stephanie Dowda, Brooke Hatfield, Laura Relyea, and Laura Theobald.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Potlatch Reading Series, Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2013. With Ian Davisson, Gregg Murray, Niina Pollari, Jordan Scott, and Nicole Steinberg.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Lost in the Letters, Atlanta, Georgia, July, 2013. With Alex Gallo-Brown, Jimmy Lo, and Amy Pursifull.
Creative Reading: Poetry, HodgePodge Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2013. With Caroline Crew.
Creative Reading: Poetry, HodgePodge Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2012. With Amy Pence.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Word of Mouth, Athens, Georgia, October, 2011.
Creative Reading: Poetry, 100,000 Poets for Change: Atlanta Edition, Atlanta, Georgia, September, 2011. With Lyndsey Cohen, Gina Myers, and Seth Parker.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Dog Ear Books, Dog Ear Books, Athens, Georgia, January, 2011. With Molly Brodak and Lily Brown.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Arcade Reading Series, Durham, North Carolina, November, 2010.
Creative Reading: Poetry, What's New in Poetry?, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, July, 2010. With Heather Christle and Heather Matesich Cousins.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Myopic Books, Myopic Books, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2010. With Erika Mikkalo.
Creative Reading: Poetry, The Stain of Poetry, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, New York, January, 2010. With Priscilla Becker, Suzanne Frischkorn, Kate Greenstreet, Becca Klaver, and D.W. Lichtenberg.
Creative Reading: Poetry,Solar Anus, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2009. With Sabrina Orah Mark, Sandra Simonds, and John Dermot Woods.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Gender Allegiances, with Atlanta Poets Group, Atlanta, Georgia, May, 2007. With other members of the Atlanta Poets Group.
Poetry Reading with Atlanta Poets Group. Aired on 1 April 2007 on WREK in Atlanta. Hosted by Chris Campbell.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Other Poets Gathering, with many others, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2007.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Language Harm Special, with many others, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2006.
Creative Reading: Poetry. Aired on 29 May 2005 on KSDT in San Diego. Hosted by Matthew Shindell.
Creative Reading: Poetry, with many others, New Voices 2004: 5th Annual International Graduate Conference in Language, Literature, and Discourse Studies, September 2004. Chair of Panel.
Creative Reading: Poetry, Writers Block, with many others, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2004.
“The Psychology of the Creative Writing Classroom,” Georgia State University Department of English Mentoring Session, with Dan Marshall, October 2003.
Creative Reading: Poetry, with many others, New Voices 2003: National Graduate Conference in English Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2003.
“Psychology of the Classroom (Mars and Venus),” Georgia State University Department of English Mentoring Session, with Dan Marshall, April 2003.
“Teaching Creative Writing in the Composition Class,” Georgia State University Department of English Mentoring Session, with Dan Marshall, October 2002.
Creative Reading: Poetry, with others, Fourth Annual Blue Ridge International Conference on
The Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, April 2002.
“From Solitary to Social Art: The Liminal, Feminine Space in ‘The Lady of Shalott,’” Fourth Annual
Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University,
Boone, North Carolina, April 2002.
“‘From Image to Idea and Back’: The Liminal Space in Seamus Heaney’s Glanmore Sonnets,”
Thirteenth Annual Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conferencefor Irish Studies, Young
Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia, February 2002.
“Who Will Take the Blame?: The Archetype of the Foolish Woman in Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s
‘The Forsaken Brother,’” New Voices 2001: National Graduate Conference in English Studies,
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2001.
POETIC COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Curator, Sunday Evening Chill at Kavarna, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015-present.
Writer-in-Residence, Loose Change/Wonderroot, 2014-2015.
Curator, Vida Voce, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013. With Sherri Caudell.
Volunteer, The Letters Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013.
Curator, (Poetry) Readings at HodgePodge Coffeehouse, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012-2013.
Curator, (Poetry) Readings at The Music Room, Atlanta, Georgia, 2012.
Organizer, 100,000 Poets for Change Event, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011. With Puma Navarro and Kory Oliver.
Curator, Sun & Moon Poetry (+ Music) Series, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009-2011. With Puma Navarro.
AWARDS:
Writer-in-Residence, Loose Change/Wonderroot, 2014-2015.
Semi-finalist, Bloof Chapbook Competition, Bloof Books, 2014.
Third Place, New South Writing Contest, 2014.
Semi-finalist, The Joanna Cargill Coconut Book Prize for a First Book, Coconut Books, 2014.
Finalist, Bloof Chapbook Competition, Bloof Books, 2013.
Finalist, Noemi Book Award for Poetry, 2013.
Finalist, The Joanna Cargill Coconut Book Prize for a First Book, Coconut Books, 2012.
First Prize, National Society of Arts and Letters, Poetry Competition, 2003(Atlanta Chapter).
Honorable Mention, Ellipsis Prize, Judge Philip Levine, 2002.
FORMAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Edited by Matthew Roudané. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings. Edited by Michael Galchinsky. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003.
EDITING EXPERIENCE:
Guest Editor, Loose ChangeMagazine (2014-2015).
Contributing Poetry Editor, Stranger Than (2011).
Assistant Poetry Editor, Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art(2004, 2007).
Reader, Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (2003).
Editorial Assistant and Manuscript Consultant, Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings. Edited by Michael Galchinsky. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003.
Editorial Assistant and Manuscript Consultant, The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Edited by Matthew Roudané. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Contributing Poetry Editor, Terminus Magazine (2001)
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS:
Under Professor Michael Galchinsky (2007). Researched and compiled citations of articles for tenure review preparation.
Under Professor Michael Galchinsky (2001–2002). Researched and compiled bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the situation in the Middle East, researched and compiled a list of prominent Jewish figures in Canadian history, proofed and input manuscript of Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings (Broadview Press, 2003).
Under Professor Matthew Roudané (2001). Copy-edited manuscript of The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTSHIPS:
Under Professors Pearl McHaney and Renée Schatteman (2007). Helped plan and organize a conference for high school and college English instructors.
Under Marta Hess, Business Manager (2001–2005, 2007). Helped organize budget and plan events, ordered office supplies, other office duties—filing, copying, typing, etc.
Under Professors Pearl McHaney and Renée Schatteman (2002). Organized information on applicants for summer National Endowment for the Humanities Conference, helped plan and organize a conference for high school and college English instructors.
INTERNSHIP: