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""Rich people spend their money / on other money. / I spend my money on string, colorful string""-- How can poetry about poverty and the injustices of late-stage capitalism contain so much joy? How can poems court absurdism without cynicism? How can poetry be both empathetic and irreverent? I wish we all knew what M.P. Carver knows. -J.D. Scrimgeour, Salem, MA Poet Laureate, author of Lifting the Turtle

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M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, and Love's Executive Order, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem ""In Vitro"" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem ""You & God & I"" was awarded the New England Poetry Club's E.E. Cummings Prize. Her chapbook, Selachipmorpha, was published by Incessant Pipe in 2015. Her second chapbook, Hard Up, is out from Lily Poetry Review Books in early 2025.

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