Carrie Chappell

Excited to be with you here and to start my feed with news about my next adventure in writing and reading. I’m now officially a doctoral student in French Literature at CY Cergy Paris University, where I‘ll be working on a research-creation project around the novels-in-verse of Hélène Bessette. 🖤

My Parisian eclipse.

this is terrific!

My essay “Hélène Bessette and the Roman du vide" is in the newest edition of Annulet. I am grateful to Editor Alisha Wright for selecting it: annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Carrie-Chapp...

We were so moved by this great new piece from @chapp010.bsky.social in @berlinlit.bsky.social. It's a candid, passionate, vulnerable homage to Hélène Bessette, and to taking ownership of what we want to say: berlinlit.com/la-femme-aux...

issue eleven is out now! berlinlit.com

Alisha Dietzman at Mnemosynes in Paris, this Saturday, May 30th at 14h!

Candice Louisa Daquin's review of Cassandra at point-blank range by Sandra Moussempès, co-translated by Amanda Murphy and myself (Lavender Ink / Diálogos), in World Literature Today: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

Delighted to have a new Hélène Bessette poem — bluesy, pantoumy, linguistically achy — in the latest issue of Painted Bride Quarterly. You can read the full piece here as well as listen to my audio recording of it: pbqmag.org/carrie-chapp...

"So, I wrote my own poem, continuing a conversation I was only just realizing women poets had been having for centuries, and I felt very sad," writes Nikki Ummel in her homage statement to Diane Seuss. You can read her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nikki-ummel-v

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "Girl à feuilles caduques" by Carrie Chappell (@chapp010.bsky.social) stonecirclereview.com/girl-a-feuil...

"I think that I am very tender for category errors. And footnotes," writes @minxmarple.bsky.social in the opening of her homage to Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. You can read and hear her entire entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/isabella-str...

Pleased to have my new poem "English Translation" up with @lunchticket.bsky.social's Amuse Bouche series: lunchticket.org/english-tran...

On April 18th, Mnemosynes is proud to host French poet, translator, and critic Lénaïg Cariou for a reading from her new collection, les dires (Éditons MF, April 2026). 14h at Rerenga Wines!

Le 1 avril, à 20h le Gang du roman poétique — Anaïs de Courson, Claudine Hunault, Cédric Jullion, Rémi Letourneur, Benoît Virot et moi-même — sera à la Librairie Nouvel Équipage pour parler de l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, à l’heure où le sentiment fasciste progresse en Europe et ailleurs.

Join us on March 14, 2026, as we welcome poet Mia You (@miayou.bsky.social) to Mnemosynes. We will gather at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) from 14-16h to hear from her newest collection, Festival (Belladonna, 2025). A short Q & A will follow the reading.

"Rich’s expansive outlook has helped me feel like I too have permission to bend [the word poetry]." See @jstoneking.bsky.social's full homage to @richardinlelot.bsky.social on our site: www.verseofapril.com/jason-stonek...

"Translated with an astute attention to detail, and crisp, continuous tonality, Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy have offered us a glimpse into the amorphous and readily engaged mind of Moussempès..." -Greg Bem, on Cassandra at point-blank range: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

A flash portrait essay, in optical illusion. With flickerings from Malik Ameer Crumpler, Phyllis of Berkeley Books of Paris, Orson Welles, Henry Griffin, Paris Heretics, the color black, and all your faces want with question.

My daugther telling me, Maman il va falloir que tu move tes books.

Just opened an Internet window, and, man, does it feel better in here. Send us your FR>EN or EN>FR translations of living poets’ work. Guidelines on our site: www.verseofapril.com/submissions (Drawing by Baptiste de Chabaneix)

Mnemosynes — ❤️‍🔥. We have events on the horizon. More updates soon.

Hélène Bessette

Special guesting at SpokenWord Paris last night…

We're super excited to go see @chapp010.bsky.social featuring at Spoken Word Paris tomorrow night! 🌟🤩🌟 More info at the link: spokenwordparis.org/2026/01/20/c...

Being a mother does not make her life more sacred nor does it make her wish to dissent less important.

Y’all, please question articles that discuss foreign authors (especially dead ones) who are now appearing in English translation and receiving coverage in global outlets without any citation of sources. Biographies, in particular, are major critical sources and should not be erased.

Congratulations to @chapp010.bsky.social and Amanda Murphy on their co-translation of Sandra Moussempès, coming out April 1st! 🎉 Pre-orders are available through the publisher, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, at www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/ca...

A poem from ten years ago, first appearing in Horse Less Press: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpv...

Hanging chad question of my 2025 is this, how can we help English translation as a field & English translators as artists to stop acting in colonial-style erasure? & with that, related, to stop fronting sanctimonious & sacrificial? I ask this of us all & take seriously my status in the conversation.

These are my top reads this year. In order read. What books have touched your 2025?

Nomination for best vintage clothing store name in Paris. But happy to hear from other suitors.

Next Tuesday, December 16th, @parisheretics.bsky.social will celebrate their 5-year anniversary. I was so pleased to work with them on Loving Tallulah Bankhead. Hope you’ll turn out for the event at Point Éphémère, for radical love and several helpings of heresy! (Below poster by Lucas Lecacheur)

“The two sides of a secret are repression and expression, just as the two sides of the poem are the told and the untold.” -- Mary Ruefle

Mercredi prochain, je participerai à une réflexion collective sur les écrivaines de la précarité. Je présenterai à cette occasion ma recherche sur l’œuvre d’Hélène Bessette, et en particulier les idées formelles qui se cristallisent dans Ida ou le délire (1973). www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Next Saturday, November 29, I’ll be hosting Biswamit Dwinedy on the Mnemosynes stage. Hope you can join us for a splash in your glass and a flash in your ears at Rerenga Wines ⚡️

A beautiful new translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson of a poem from Sylvie Kandé's GESTUAIRE: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Really pleased to have a new poem @pamenarpress.bsky.social. I wrote a longish post about it on Instagram, my personal relationship with the accordance/discordance of the French "frôle" with the English "fondle." As ever, talking to the work of Hélène Bessette: www.pamenarpress.com/post/carrie-...

We’re so delighted to be hosting our first Pop-up Salon in Paris tonight! Hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @kplumhoff.bsky.social, it features wonderful readers from all over Europe Read about them here: 👇

Two more days!! 💙

We can't wait! We've got such a great lineup of readers, including @philippabowe.bsky.social @amadolaila.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social and many more. All hosted by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social 🎤 Say hi if you are coming 👋

Poème perdu de pressing

On November 29, 2025, we are pleased to welcome poet, essayist, and professor Biswamit Dwibedy to Mnemosynes. Please join us from 14-16h at Rerenga Wines (3 rue de la Fidélité) for a reading and discussion of his newly released collection ERODE, out this year from Litmus Press.

Join us for our 5th Anniversary party, Dec 16th at @pointephemere.bsky.social! Poetry, Music, DJ Sets and lots of surprises 🎉 Featuring Heretics artists @stainedglasspoet.bsky.social @chapp010.bsky.social @lesteria.bsky.social @richardinlelot.bsky.social + friends and special guests! Don't miss it!

Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi. Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org

"That is what makes anybody a king that everybody cries but he does not." —Gertrude Stein in IDA #nokings