Carrie Shipers's poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals. She is the author of Ordinary Mourning (ABZ, 2010), Cause for Concern (Able Muse, 2015), Family Resemblances (University of New Mexico, 2016), and Grief Land (University of New Mexico, 2020).

Other poems by Carrie Shipers in Verse Daily:
September 18, 2019:   "On Days I Don't Hate My Job" "On days that I don't hate my job, I don't wake up mad..."
August 12, 2016:   "The Woman Who Can't Forget: 25th High School Reunion" "Women hug and squeal. Men put arms..."
November 25, 2013:   "Confession" "I stopped calling for no reason because..."
June 1, 2010:   "Sarah Winchester Speaks" "No one knew what haunted me..."

Books by Carrie Shipers:

Other poems on the web by Carrie Shipers:
Four poems
Six poems
"How Great We Almost Were: Kevin Von Erich"
"How Long This Drought Will Last"
Three poems
"Anti-Anxiety Poem"
Two poems
"Apology for Being Small"
Three poems
Two poems
"Edison's Talking Doll"
"My Father's Poison"
Three poems
Two poems
"Helen Agonistes"

Carrie Shipers's Website.

About Grief Land:

"Full of rage and empathy and precise renditions of loss, Grief Land should be required reading for anyone who must eventually confront this kind of pain."
—Jehanne Dubrow