About Carla Rachel Sameth

Carla Rachel Sameth

Carla Rachel Sameth is the Co-Poet Laureate for Altadena, CA 2022-2024.  Her chapbook, What Is Left was published December 2021 with dancing girl press. Carla’s debut memoir, One Day on the Gold Line, originally published in 2019was reissued by Golden Foothills Press in 2022.  Her full-length poetry collection will be published by Nymeria Press November 2023. Her writing on blended/unblended, queer, multiracial and single parent families appears in a variety of publications. Carla’s work has been selected three times as Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays. Her story “Graduation Day at Addiction High,” which originally appeared in Narratively, was also selected for Longread’s “Five Stories on Addiction.” A Pasadena Rose Poet, a West Hollywood Pride Poet, and a former PEN Teaching Artist, Carla teaches creative writing to high school and university students and has taught incarcerated youth. https://carlasameth.com/



Author Archives: Carla Rachel Sameth

Social Distance

November 19th, 2020 | by Carla Rachel Sameth

Consistency was never my forte. My son, Raphael, comes to visit one morning and after eating, our masks are still removed, still


Mother’s Day Triptych

May 24th, 2019 | by Carla Rachel Sameth

I long for something that will somehow bind the three of us together, me, my wife, and my son. They seem to be less attached to the idea


Spinning

March 28th, 2019 | by Carla Rachel Sameth

She has begun to spin. Thirty minutes on the bike, thirty minutes on the weight circuit, trying to follow along.


HEARTBEAT

March 20th, 2017 | by Carla Rachel Sameth

After almost four years of trying to become a mother and three miscarriages, I was pregnant again. I had reached



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