Julie Carr

Julie Carr is the author of over thirteen books of poetry and prose, including Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press 2023) and Underscore (Omnidawn Books 2024). Earlier books include Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022), Real Life: An Installation (Omindawn Books 2018), Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press 2018). In 2023 Omnidawn Books reissued her 2010 book,100 Notes on Violence. 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 and Pamenar Press, respectively. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over the next few years.

Carr has collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes and Gesel Mason. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver. She hosts the podcast Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone. 

www.juliecarrpoet.com; www.counterpathpress.org; https://www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key