CAROL ELLIS

Carol Ellis is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. She’s been around the academic block with her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is the author of two chapbooks: HELLO (Two Plum Press, 2018), and I Want A Job (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her poems and essays are published in anthologies and journals including ZYZZYVA, Comstock Review, The Cincinnati Review, Saranac Review, and Cider Press Review. In 2015 she spent time in Cuba writing a book and giving readings.

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monday and Dark Chocolate

You can read my latest poems, “monday” and “Dark Chocolate” in the latest issue of Trampoline Poetry.

https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/

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Proud to announce that my book, Lost and Local, is now available through the Pacific Coast Poetry Series from Beyond Baroque Press.

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“Valentine Island” was just published by Sobotka Literary Magazine!

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I am having a release reading for my chapbook, HELLO, published by Two Plum Press! Other readers will be Nathan Wade Carter, Jenna Marie Fletcher, and Amie Zimmerman! Here is the Facebook event.

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Carol reading at Rose City Book Pub for the Bone Tax Poem Club. Picture by Amie Zimmerman.

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My poem "As Usual" has been published by Oxidant Engine. A big thank you to them.

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My new chapbook, HELLO, is now available to purchase online! Head on over to Two Plum Press to buy. Just in time for Christmas. Thanks to Andrew Barton and all at Two Plum for all their hard work.

http://www.twoplumpress.com/bookshop/hello

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Thank you to The Figure 1 for nominating my poem "While Planting Fruit Trees" for a Pushcart! Read the poem here: http://thefigureone.com/2b/Ellis/

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I have two new poems in Issue 14 of the Saranac Review SR!

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My chapbook, HELLO, has been published by Two Plum Press and there will be a reading on Nov 30 at the IPRC at 7. Please come! I will have my book for sale!! 🤩

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Feels good to hold these! I will have them at the reading at the IPRC on November 30! More info as the date approaches. You can also buy them at Powell's! And soon on Two Plum Press's online store.

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My new chapbook—HELLO—is in Powell's (link below)! Two Plum Press has done a beautiful job with this book. It will be available in their online store soon, and I will be selling it at future readings. Keep your eyes out for a release reading as well. https://www.powells.com/book/-1110000300516

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My poem “Thunder” is The William & Mary Review, Vol. 56, 2018.

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Mojave River Review spring/summer 2018

Mojave River Review spring/summer 2018 presents a brilliant, eclectic 200+ page collection of poetry and prose from around the globe. Featured in this issue are: Kate Gehan, Kenneth Pobo, Carol Ellis, Dave Petraglia, Bill Yarrow, Beate Sigriddaughter, Marvin Schackelford, Maximilian Heinegg, Whitnee Pearce, Audra Coleman, Bruce McRae, Michelle Hartman, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Brianna Pike, Susan Tepper, Jeff Santosuosso, Diane D. Gillette, Catfish McDaris, Ann Howells, Dennis Mahagin, Francine Witte, Beau Boudreaux, Mary Crawford, Phillip Brown, Heath Brougher, Joan Colby, Keith Moul, Hope Nisly, Mike James, Eran Eads, Robert Beveridge, Sara Comito, Denise Tolan, Michael J. Galko, Dianna MacKinnon Henning, Michael Minassian, Judy Shepps Battle, K.W. Peery, Kevin Ridgeway, Carolyn Adams, Nick Dante, Leslie E. Hoffman, Brandon Marlon, Vivian Wagner, Robert Boucheron, Christopher Hopkins, Catherine Arra, Douglas Cole, Maryfrances Wagner, Shirley Jones-Luke, David M. Harris, Jonel Abellanosa,

I have three new poems in the new issue of Mojave River Review.

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No Tomatoes Rainfall and I am outside in rain with rain as rain apologies to everyone to myself with wet hands thank what air to look like that I grow and comb my hair today. Thinking of You If you could run down to the corner store for a pound of hamburger don’t wear green socks, makes

I have two new poems up at Landfill Journal.

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I have three new poems in the new issue of Figure 1

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Heart Break—Carol Ellis Someone drops a glass of red wine in the kitchen. She studies it. She is also on the floor. Her gaze focuses on the glacial broken glass the liquid congealing into a spill over linoleum. The floor apparently not level but hills and valleys lit rooms of other lives or at least pools of water after heavy rain and her without a raincoat an umbrella, boots. The mud from her walk outside, inside. She reaches for a piece of glass holds it like home—the house the trees the friendly neighbors turn their porch lights on at night that last look out the windows before bed. She can’t sleep on the floor someone has to sweep up it might as well be her. A bottle steady on the counter she reaches for another glass fills it and drinks a long time thirsty. The neighbors wave. (Published in SLAB #13, May 2018)