Julie Carr
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Biography
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 (Omnidawn 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-translations (with Jennifer Pap) 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 recently collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes, video artist and poet Carolina Ebeid, and musician Ben Roberts. 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
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
I’m currently writing a trilogy titled Overflow, which deals directly with Jewish history and its overlaps with other peoples’ histories: German, Polish, Ukrainian, Palestinian, Moroccan, Japanese, etc. The project is concerned with the ethics of nonviolence and the idea of justice and both human and nonhuman value in the face of war and genocide, both historically in Europe and in Japan, and now, in Gaza and the occupied territories. The project engages Maimonides, as well as 20th and 21st century Jewish thinkers, such as Judith Butler, Levinas, Benjamin, and River Barad. My work is always in some ways concerned with Jewish ethics and Jewish ideas about time and history.
Published Works
The Garden (Essay Press and Pamenar Press, 2025)
Underscore (Omnidawn, 2024)
The Book of Skies by Leslie Kapan (translation) (Pamenar Press, 2024)
Mud, Blood and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
Climate (Essay Press, 2022)
Real Life: An Installation (Omnidawn Books, 2018)
Someone Shot My Book (University of Michigan Press, 2018)
Excess (Commune Editions, 2018)
Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta Press, 2017)
The Silence that Surrounds the Future (Essay Press, 2015)
Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press, 2015)
Excess-The Factory by Leslie Kaplan (poetry translation) (Commune Editions, 2014)
Think Tank (Solid Objects, 2015)
RAG (Omnidawn Books, 2014)
Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2013)
Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines (National Poetry Series winner, Coffee House Press, 2010)
100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2010)
Equivocal ( Alice James Books, 2007)
Mead: An Epithalamion (University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series, 2004)
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Education
Barnard College, B.A.
NYU, M.F.A.
University of California, PhD