Pamela Hobart Carter's Blog, page 10

I Read at PoetryBridge Community Mic

Sylvia Pollack’s new book: Risking It Pensive, intimate, and often funny poems. I love this collection. Much about deafness, aging, being in nature, noticing, and living in these times. I read it frontwards for a few poems, and then chose to go backwards, and loved the progressions from both directions.

This Fiction Writer won an Honorable Mention in the PAGE ONE Contest!

PAGE ONE PRIZE WINNERS 2021 The first page of A SENSE OF COLOR, my YA manuscript, won an honorable mention. It was selected, blind, from 615 submissions. I hope you enjoy reading ALL the first pages. PAGE ONE PRIZE WINNERS 2021 Sharon GelmanPotomac, Maryland, USA FIRST PRIZERead Sharon’s BioREAD THE WINNING ENTRY(No working title) Jennifer SteilTashkent, Uzbekistan […]

POSTPONED until further notice: Live PoetryBridge

You know why. We would wish it were all otherwise. Keep reading to each other. Keep writing. We’ll meet in the same room one of these days.

Wayfinding Poets in Conversation

I am a Wayfinding poet whose entire experience with editors Amy Beth and Derek Wright has been a pleasure. Wayfinding is a collection of prose, poetry, and photography inspired by American parks and public lands. Skylight Books in LA carries the new anthology, which includes a poem of mine. Recently five of us Wayfinding poets […]

May 2021 = Advance Sale Period for “Held Together with Tape and Glue”

This is my newest collection of poems, from Finishing Line Press. HELD TOGETHER WITH TAPE AND GLUE by Pamela Hobart Carter $14.99 Like a gull or osprey, or even, a cloudhorse, the poems in Pamela Hobart Carter’s Held Together with Tape and Glue move with grace, drama and purpose. “Patterns are easier to see from the sky” she […]

TOM HANKS HAS A THING FOR TYPEWRITERS

Tom fixates on typewriters, stockpiles them, which means he visits shops selling discarded oddments, gives himself hours to drift to the out-of-the-way arrondissement or storied flea market in pursuit of Smith-Coronas considered archaic in business (and even to the poets who fawn over the quirks and whims of their idols. Allen Ginsberg howled to a […]

Piano Recital

The perpetual beginner attended a Zoom recital of prerecorded videos. Here’s mine.

Wayfinding: a parks/public lands poetry reading series and anthology

In 2019 I was pleased to have a poem accepted by Amy Beth Wright and Derek Wright for Parks & Points & Poetry. Since then the Wrights determined to create Wayfinding, an anthology of poems of the public outdoors and Monday 12 April 2021, I had the additional pleasure of participating in the first of […]

Held Together with Tape and Glue

I’m excited! Presales for my new poetry chapbook begin today, 12 April 2021. You can order the book from the publisher, Finishing Line Press (here). My cover collage includes a photograph by Robert M L Raynard, a London photographer. The poem below was inspired by his photo and is in this collection. Flight Over A […]

Celebrating Poetry Month: a reading, a book, a partnership