Carrie Chappell
@chapp010.bsky.social
Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her. IG: @chapp010
My essay “Hélène Bessette and the Roman du vide" is in the newest edition of Annulet. I am grateful to Editor Alisha Wright for selecting it: annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Carrie-Chapp...
Carrie Chappell: Hélène Bessette and the roman du vide — Annulet
Hélène Bessette and the Roman du vide ...
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We were so moved by this great new piece from @chapp010.bsky.social in @berlinlit.bsky.social. It's a candid, passionate, vulnerable homage to Hélène Bessette, and to taking ownership of what we want to say: berlinlit.com/la-femme-aux...
La femme aux yeux orange. - berlin lit
The first time I mistranslated Hélène BessetteI called her poet and not novelist. I guess I was confusedBy her lines except that they seemed to me, and still do,To contain some of the most important v...
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Alisha Dietzman at Mnemosynes in Paris, this Saturday, May 30th at 14h!
Candice Louisa Daquin's review of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès, co-translated by Amanda Murphy and myself (Lavender Ink / Diálogos), in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...
Feminist Surrealism and the Body Politic: Sandra Moussempès’s Cassandra at Point-Blank Range, by Candice Louisa Daquin
“Can we remove a person’s writing from their heritage and expect outsiders to comprehend cultural subtleties—do they remain understood?”
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Delighted to have a new Hélène Bessette poem — bluesy, pantoumy, linguistically achy — in the latest issue of Painted Bride Quarterly. You can read the full piece here as well as listen to my audio recording of it: pbqmag.org/carrie-chapp...
"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v
Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Girl à feuilles caduques" by Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...
Girl à feuilles caduques
by Carrie Chappell I know a bed can hold more than a sleeping body. I know a body can hold more than a sleeping girl. Parts of me, like branches, have always been erect, Have never slumbered. Under...
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Aujourd’hui : « Écritures en circulation mémoire, langues, filiations », le premier séminaire de l'axe 4 en recherche-création du laboratoire Héritages. (Vous pouvez assister en personne ou en ligne mais vous devez vous inscrire: heritages.cyu.fr/version-fran... )
"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...
Pleased to have my new poem "English Translation" up with @lunchticket.bsky.social's Amuse Bouche series: lunchticket.org/english-tran...
English Translation - Lunch Ticket
Poet, essayist, translator, editor, and educator, Carrie Chappell searches futilely for the lost work of Hélène Bessette in this poem.
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On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!
Le 1 avril, à 20h le Gang du roman poétique — Anaïs de Courson, Claudine Hunault, Cédric Jullion, Rémi Letourneur, Benoît Virot et moi-même — sera à la Librairie Nouvel Équipage pour parler de l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, à l’heure où le sentiment fasciste progresse en Europe et ailleurs.
Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.
"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...
"Translated with an astute attention to detail, and crisp, continuous tonality, Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy have offered us a glimpse into the amorphous and readily engaged mind of Moussempès..." -Greg Bem, on Cassandra at point-blank range: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
A flash portrait essay, in optical illusion. With flickerings from Malik Ameer Crumpler, Phyllis of Berkeley Books of Paris, Orson Welles, Henry Griffin, Paris Heretics, the color black, and all your faces want with question.
Vignette en noir
Or a shadow in the pan.
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My daugther telling me, Maman il va falloir que tu move tes books.
Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)
Mnemosynes — ❤️🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.
We're super excited to go see @chapp010.bsky.social featuring at Spoken Word Paris tomorrow night! 🌟🤩🌟 More info at the link: spokenwordparis.org/2026/01/20/c...
Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.
Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.
Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...
A poem from ten years ago, first appearing in Horse Less Press: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpv...
bonne année by Carrie Chappell
YouTube video by Carrie Chappell
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Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.
These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?
