Allison Carter

Allison Carter is a LA-based writer and the author of A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press) and Here Versus Elsewhere (Insert Blanc Press) as well as several shorter collections, including Sum Total (Eohippus Labs), All Bodies Are The Same and Have The Same Reactions (Blanc Press), Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press), and We All Are Afraid of Repeating Mistakes That I Have Already Made: Breakfast Poems (Dancing Girl Press). Allison has developed creative writing programs for residential and inpatient eating disorder treatment, for adults with homelessness and severe mental illness, and for adolescents. She has also taught creative writing at the college level and has led workshops in many other settings. Allison works as a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice. Contact: accarter[at]gmail[dot]com

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #16 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnr1s3jBuvLqQD0vzWs75fKsRctvo9Oel_5Y7o0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ktj68knbn9y4

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Amazing Life and Death Tales #14 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMVUlxB-YTnzajCfioqFQlv8IBMFVHIui7lvQ0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lcb882rqjvt4

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #12 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm9EY9XhgssW76IYT48EOE7TPUJSZvYcthKM5o0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hvbir81fjkbx

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #10 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmPmOJpBo59t--o6itNeRxr-0JkmfVK0IutRGo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11kax0brdjyz

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #11 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmZaUbkhQSzNWf5bNMA2TGs5WHfTKx9NMtKnio0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cx3bqj2g5tc0

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #8 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl8wAJNBF36hJ0zDN4em6wciaFsa1dRVUPuqmc0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=608k7pybb0h

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #6 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BltgHPShd4e-oLffZWFwHVZW0B2vZA4DTfT7mI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fe451lkqdhr

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #6 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BlluFYKhSavD52F09SxuTVc0IESl8SNHZ9Krsk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=obfe34luy1bt

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Amazing Birth and Death Tales #5 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BlUIVwcBU_MDtyDHSrjLtnxNEtZ0-iVhRlBD8U0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mkpau2hxtite

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Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

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Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

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Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #3 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

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Amazing Life and Death Tunnels #1 • • Excised from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May (at Atwater Village, Los Angeles)

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Listen to "Finally, the cylindrical voids tapping along" recorded by Stephanie Aston, Rachel Beetz, Matt Barbier, Ashley Walters, and Scott Worthington (Wasteland Music). Composed and conducted by Nicholas Deyoe. This piece is on the album "for Duane" on populist records. Text is from my first book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press).

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Personal Collaborations Abound on Walters and Deyoe New Releases

Jacob Kopcienski reviews two new interrelated albums from Los Angeles: cellist Ashley Walters' Sweet Anxiety and composer Nicholas Deyoe's "for Duane."

Beautiful acknowledgement of community and collaboration at the heart of these two releases from LA-based musicians.

“The compositions Nicholas Deyoe includes on “for Duane” demonstrate a compositional approach which prioritizes collaboration. His timbrally rich, texturally complex, and often textually informed works highlight the abilities of the musicians and ensembles with which he regularly works. Finally, the cylindrical voids tapping along (2016) opens “for Duane” featuring soprano Stephanie Atson, Deyoe’s wife, accompanied by a mixed quartet comprised of members of wasteLand. The text by Allison Carter reflects contemporary anxiety, isolation, and purpose in the face of overwhelmingly limitless possibilities. Aston, through Deyoe’s setting, captures this reflective yet frenetic character through unadorned lyricism, dramatic recitation, and dazzling, gravity defying, vocal athleticism. Creating a dramatic textural context for the lyrics, Deyoe’s writing is most evocative when the accompaniment timbrally mimics the sounds of the words themselves.“

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Balcony

Overcoat for me and paw pads for you. Honey and seeds for the birds on the balcony. Let them in.

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Friends!! Les Figues Press and Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) are throwing a party at Zebulon on February 22nd to celebrate their new partnership. I’ll be reading alongside Jess Arndt, Yxta Maya Murray, and Stephanie Taylor. Come party! There will be books! There will be cocktails and fine company! (at Zebulon Café Concert)