.Writers.on.Writing.

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.W.o.W. #27

Ute Carson

Describe an early experience where you learned that language has power.

I have been writing all my life. Inspiration came from my mother and both grandmothers, who read, told stories, and recited poetry from my infancy on. In elementary school, I had an inspiring teacher who ended each school day with a brief story. I was immersed in poetic language and started my first notebook in second grade. In third grade, a story about my pet rabbit was published in a German nature magazine. From then on, I never stopped writing. Writing is a passion and, like all passions, it never ceases. I have never experienced writer’s block.

If you didn’t write, what would you do?

I enjoy many other activities, especially in relation to my family and animals. Because ideas stay safely in my memory until I can find the time to write them down, interruptions don’t bother me. I used to write in longhand, but now composing on a computer keyboard has become routine. I have so many stories just waiting to be written. But I also enjoy the work of other writers.

What does your inner writing voice tell you?

My inner voice fills me with gratitude for my writing career, and that I am never without a story to tell or an image for a new poem.

Ute Carson published her poem, “Risks Around Each Corner,” in Yellow Arrow Journal’s Vol. V, No. 3 issue (Re)Formation. She also joined other (Re)Formation authors in our A Reformative (Re)Formation Reading in November 2020.

And we are thrilled to have Ute release her chapbook, Listen (which will include “Risks Around Each Corner”), with Yellow Arrow Publishing in October 2021. Please show her some love in the Comments.

You can learn more at utecarson.com. Find her and our other incredible chapbook authors here.