https://mpcarver.com/home daily 1.0 2022-05-06 https://mpcarver.com/bio daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/efacc07f-67f1-4adc-a1b9-7c1c083fd234/273078801_493764992315993_3854493318463302182_n.jpg Bio - M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, and Love’s Executive Order, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem "In Vitro" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015, and a chapbook with Lily Poetry Review Books, Hard Up, is available now from Lily Poetry Review Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1607479427723-UKD7GVNP0T47B2PG7O8C/IMG_5118.JPG Bio - We can sit side by side and watch even the sun depreciate. Excerpt from “CAPITALISM” published in Fox Chase Review and art piece “The Money Bug” https://mpcarver.com/poetry daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/4283aad6-4508-4cd5-99d5-17ab166613ff/Hard-Up-cover-spread1-front-1.png Poetry Available now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1608343695541-WWFMD9516GGAR8LQMSGT/132009240_716228135966663_5936165898249987779_n.jpg Poetry Limited Edition Chapbook published by Incessant Pipe in 2015. Excerpt: V. Darling, don’t you remember? Your walls covered in black-light, your mother slanting her eyes and sewing the sickle patch on your memory quilt? When we tangled and our knees clacked, how we rumbled? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1608344968021-FGT67Z4R3XZGBTBYU9AO/125998745_200206398250421_198352324254757384_n.jpg Poetry Other Publications Paterson Literary Review, Forthcoming “On the Way to the Body” Rattle, 2024 “The State of It” Incessant Pipe, 2024 (Finalist, 2023 Connecticut River Review’s Experimental Poetry Prize) “In Vitro” Mom Egg Review (MER), 2023 “Present Participle” Mantis, 2023 “Your Hat” “You Have Secrets But They’re Nothing Special” “Quiescent” New England Poetry Club 2022 E.E. Cummings Prize “You & God & I” Tofu Ink, 2022 “Invasion” Poetry South, 2021 “Market Strategies” “Formication” Incessant Pipe, 2021 “No Time” Lily Poetry Review, 2020 “Ekphrastic on an Ugly Bunny Sculpture” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1608345598694-YFMXWA1BR5FB9CX6H4YP/IMG_2233.jpg Poetry Nixes Mate Review, 2020 “Lamentation” “Elegy” Love’s Executive Order, 2019 “Ab Imo Pectore” Jubilat, 2019 “A Theory” “Across America” “Sweet Rising Stars” “Paradise Chose Me” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/80aad18d-88bc-493a-868d-0a512a06df28/Our+First+Storm.jpg Poetry Fox Chase Review, 2015 “Dear W” “Trill” Oddball Magazine, 2014 “She’s above and beyond” “She’s saying something” Poetry Everywhere Art Installation, Salem, MA 2012 “Myth” Hospital Drive, 2012 “Your Labium Superius” Zig Zag Folios Vol 1, 2012 “Couple Poem” “In Defense of Nogi” “Sin Up” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1608346131672-40GHRMM0NYM29K7L84PE/IMG_4988.JPG Poetry Short Poetry Films, 2018 Peabody Essex Museum Installation “Beyond the Veil” (produced by Gregory Glenn) 50 Haikus, 2017 “Late Autumn Nights” Meat for Tea, 2017 “Speaking of Fairy Tales” “Alcoholic” “Frozen Under” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy, 2016 “Laika” Salem Writer’s Anthology, 2015 “Poetry Taglines” Incessant Pipe, 2015 “From A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar” “Lies I’ve Told Over Dinner” https://mpcarver.com/services daily 0.75 2020-12-19 https://mpcarver.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://mpcarver.com/store daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/947ae941-f79e-43b3-a51a-728bba4e8e7c/Hard-Up-cover-spread1-front-1.png https://mpcarver.com/store/p/engraved-silver-bar-chain-bracelet monthly 0.5 2021-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fc860efbf951e27dc1270d3/1610323301525-SC00V9PYG39K7F1KLTH3/engraved-silver-bar-chain-bracelet-18k-rose-gold-coating-5ffb955f468e9.png Store - 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