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Carrie Shipers

Providence, Rhode Island

Carrie Shipers is the author of Ordinary Mourning (2010), Cause for Concern (2015), and Family Resemblances (2016). Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She teaches English and creative writing at Rhode Island College.

Column 590

Mother Talks Back to the Monster

By Carrie Shipers

Column 365

Love Poem for Ted Neeley In Jesus Christ Superstar

Column 152

Medical History