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About Allison Carter
Allison Carter is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press) and a chapbook Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press). Her work has otherwise been published in Conjnctions, Joyland, P-Queue, 5_Trope, Fence, 3rd Bed, and other journals. Her poem ‘Razor Sharp Penny Candy’ was included in the Best of Fence: First Nine Years anthology. Her long poem, The Nests, is available from H_NGM_N, and can be viewed here.
Allison Carter has taught at CalArts and for various nonprofit literacy programs. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Conjnctions
Horse Less Review
photo by Lisa Gallo
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Take a Hike, Allison: The Road to Robin Bird Springs
more about the project
Allison is currently trying to raise money to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, writing a poem a day on the trail. Thank you in advance for your support.
Allison also co-edits P S Books with Joe Potts.
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Dream Autobiography
Allison Carter was cold. In a dream Allison Carter put her head under water to save herself from an approaching apocalyptic water spout. Being unable to hold her breath, however, she breathed in the water and then woke up VERY COLD with no MAN having meanwhile slipped out of her SLEEPING BAG.
This is how she died.
“This is how I died!
Tsunami whirlpool,
I found a box put it in the river climbed in and this is how I died.”
Allison Carter has seen the sky and the sidewalk SWAP OUT.
Allison Carter has seen the rocks and the craters SWAP OUT.
Allison Carter has seen the trees and the machines SWAP OUT.
Allison Carter has seen the coasts SWAP and the desert and the ocean SWAP and the table and the dinner SWAP and the speech and the expression it was delivered in SWAP OUT FOR GOOD.
“I feel the way I used to feel
with bills and boyfriends at my heels,”
says ALLISON CARTER, on FILM,
speaking from the other side that only she has seen.