Julie Carr in Conversation with Susan Briante

Forthcoming

Julie Carr is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, including Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022), Real Life: An Installation (Omindawn 2018), Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press 2018). Earlier books include 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and Think Tank (Solid Objects 2015). With Jeffrey Robinson, she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions (2018) and Pamenar Press, respectively (2024). Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023. Underscore, a book of poems, is just out from Omnidawn (2024). Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over subsequent years.

Susan Briante is the author most recently of Defacing the Monument, a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls the collection “a superb examination of the ethical issues facing artists who tell others’ stories” and a “dazzlingly inventive and searching text.” Her newest collection, 13 Questions for the Next Economy, gathers selections from her three previous books of poetry—Pioneers in the Study of Motion, Utopia Minus, and The Market Wonders—as well as new poems, prose, and images.