Carrie Jerrell Q&A on her series of wedding sonnets
Carrie Jerrell talks about her series of wedding sonnets, including “The Ring“, “The Bridesmaid,” “The GroomÕs Cake,” and “The Recessional.”
Carrie Jerrell talks about her series of wedding sonnets, including “The Ring“, “The Bridesmaid,” “The GroomÕs Cake,” and “The Recessional.”
Carrie Jerrell’s debut collection, After the Revival, received the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Waywiser Press. She received an M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University, and, in the fall of 2009, she will join the faculty at Murray State University as an assistant professor of English. […]
Carrie Jerrell talks about the genesis of her poem “The Poet Prays to Her Radio for a Country Song.”
Carrie Jerrell Q&A on the form of her poem “The Country-Western Singer’s Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California”
Carrie Jerrell talks about reading her poems aloud when she writes.
Called me Hot Stuff. Called me Ragtop, Lugnut, your Deere-in-the-Driveway Duchess. Called forth Bad Company from the pick-up’s stereo and, lo, I appeared with a buck knife and a hundred-proof smile, my battered hunter’s manual tucked in the waistband of my cutoffs. What were we at first but two necks of the same guitar, high […]
O guardian of the well-lunged, purveyor of lies, enabler of the backseat horny, I am sorely afflicted. Traveling the long tongue of highway 40, I fear the bottomless black sky of loneliness has hawked me from the back of its throat and doomed me to land, wet and without notice, in the dust-bitten spittoon of […]
Somewhere back East my late love’s all coked up, another cowgirl wannabe lying at his feet while he plucks a Willie Nelson song from his beer-soaked six string and complains nobody understands a rebel’s broken heart. I’ve played her part, the star struck blonde in boots and denim mini, pert boobs, and brains to boot. […]