Having played the roles of bride’s best friend, groom’s sister, last minute fill-in, and token female cousin, you’re prepared for dyed-to-match high heels, the blisters, cold beef, warm beer, the chicken dance, and the dozen well-meaning guests who pat your hand and ask, Have you found someone special yet, sweetheart? You’ve learned to include in […]
Legend has it that if a single woman sleeps with a piece of groom’s cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband. Afraid to stifle its prophetic powers with Tupperware or plastic wrap, you leave it on a plate and tell yourself eight hours alone with your Prince Charming, make believe or […]
(Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”) Applause. Then arm-in-arm they quickstep down the aisle, matrimony’s new recruits, parading for the crowd of relatives and seasoned friends who secretly count down the days until the war begins: disputes about which house, which job, which sedatives will damp their A.D.H.D. kids; the sneak attacks of Lust and Pride, the mind […]
Carrie Jerrell talks about the genesis of her poem “The Poet Prays to Her Radio for a Country Song.”
Carrie Jerrell Q&A on the form of her poem “The Country-Western Singer’s Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California”
Carrie Jerrell talks about reading her poems aloud when she writes.