Carla Sarett : part one

Carla Sarett is a poet and fiction writer based in San Francisco. Her debut poetry collection, She Has Visions, will be published by Main Street Rag Press in Fall 2022.  Her poems have appeared in Pithead Chapel, Neologism, Naugatuck River Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Prole, Gyroscope and elsewhere; and her novels include A Closet Feminist (Unsolicited Press) and The Looking Glass (Propertius Press.) Carla has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania.  

photo credit: Shana Sarett 

What are you working on? 

I am working two poetry projects.  

One is a small chapbook of poems about my family, and my older brother (who died when I was twenty)— they’re tinged with TV, film and song influences, from The Twilight Zone to Dylan.    Several of these poems have appeared in literary journals, but together, they will create (or so I hope) a different story.

The other is a series of poems about the 18th century artist, Thomas Gainsborough and his two daughters. I’m drawn to stories of sisters (these two ended up living together in isolation) It’s an interesting case, since Gainsborough wanted his daughters to have “careers” in painting.  The poems has required a good deal of research (reading his letters, etc.), and of course, looking at paintings of the once-joyful girls turning into rather disappointed women.