@AnElizabeth2

Poet // Author of THE GOING IS FOREVER (Milkweed 9/15/2026) // Poetry Editor of LARB

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined October 2015
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I know what that open door is for. - William Gass on Rilke
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Anne Carson on Sophie Calle in @Artforum — and me thinking of the Bataillean “overshare” 🖤 artforum.com/features/sophie…

SOPHIE CALLE’S THE SLEEPERS, 1979

Anne Carson discuss a work by Sophie Calle on the occasion of her first retrospective in North America at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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Chicago launch of The Going Is Forever in Chicago Friday 10/30 at 4pm with our foremost poet of eros at Seminary Co-op 57th st @RichieHof @SeminaryCoop semcoop.com/event/elizabeth-…
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Iowa @Prairie_Lights with Andrew Zawacki and Devin Johnston
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@themarginalianOct 13
Louise Glück’s died 3 years ago today, having won the Nobel Prize for her poetry. Here is her breathtaking love poem to life at the horizon of death: themarginalian.org/2020/10/1…

Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to Life at the Horizon of Death

A subtle, stunning serenade to the lifelong hunger for self-love and self-forgiveness.

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@synekura_audioOct 13
Excerpt from a 2016 conversation between Michael Silverblatt and Anne Carson
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Kamran Javadizadeh@kjavadizadehOct 14
On the short list of my favorite Ashbery poems. He must really have been riding some high when he got to those lines about the segments of the orange.
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An excerpt from Carson's lecture on the idea of "selling out" and how it can be traced back to Homer's Oddysey
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Elizabeth Metzger and K. Iver September 24, 2026
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"One feels, in the noisy blankness left by the white space, Long Soldier absorbing the pain of past and present at once." Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviews two new books of poetry by Layli Long Soldier and Beth Piatote: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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leti@eaturlettuceOct 8
“Necks” by Anne Carson, in NYRB
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兔兒神@chenchenwritesOct 8
Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love Anne Carson I like being with you all night with closed eyes. What luck—here you are coming along the stars! I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something. Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

ALT O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love Anne Carson I like being with you all night with closed eyes. What luck—here you are coming along the stars! I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something. Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

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leti@eaturlettuceOct 8
nobel laureate anne carson!!!!!!!!!
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrizeOct 8
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Exciting review of The Going Is Forever by Valerie Duff-Strautmann! 🐎🖤 ronslate.com/on-the-going-is…
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Happy to see The Going Is Forever on this list 💕 merliterary.com/2026/09/19/m…

MER Bookshelf - September 2026 - MER - Mom Egg Review

Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley   On our Bookshelf this month, books by Elizabeth Metzger, Preeti Parikh, Jo Pitkin, Erin Miller Reid, Linda Scheller, Suzanne Sherman, Avia Tadmor.   Jo Pitkin,...

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RobertAllenPoet@RobertAllenPoetOct 4
Anne Sexton died on this date in 1974. What an incredible poet.
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“The movie event of the year.” Uncensored and restored for the first time ever, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS comes to the Vista in 35mm this October for a special week-long engagement with full showtimes daily starting 10/16. Tickets on sale now.
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The Paris Review
@parisreviewOct 1
“A poem is essentially embedded in a matrix of silence. So that even if the words celebrate what is, each line end acknowledges what is not.” —Rosmarie Waldrop buff.ly/veoFLnv

Rosmarie Waldrop, The Art of Poetry No. 117

“It puzzles me that people say my work is difficult. If you read it, it’s very simple.”

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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 30
One of my favorite variations on the story of Persephone is Deborah Digges' poem, "Trillium."
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