Enjoy this audio recording of “Cosmovore Finds Pluto Less Palatable Than Imagined” by Kristi Carter from Vol. 27:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy the full issue here.
Kristi Carter’s poems have appeared in publications including Alyss, Gertrude, So to Speak, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), Nimrod, Naugatuck River Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress Publications), and Hawaii Review amongst others.
In literature, art, and life, she is deeply invested in depictions and subversions of motherhood (and daughterhood), mother-daughter dynamics and tropes, sexual politics and agencies, LGBTQ experiences, embodiment, memory, heritage, history, music, myth, violence, and trauma.
Her scholarly and poetic work examines of the intersection of gender and intergenerational trauma in 20th Century poetics. Her fields of interest include trauma narratives, trauma studies via gender studies and intersectionality, and most subfields of study tangential to these, with specific interest on agency and gender.