The Volta: Friday Feature

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Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalamion; Equivocal; 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Award); and Sarah-Of Fragments and Lines (a 2010 National Poetry Series selection). Her critical study of Victorian poetry, Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry, is forthcoming in 2013 from Dalkey Archive. A new book of poems, RAG, is forthcoming from Omnidawn. She is at work on a long-term project titled Real Life: An Installation, and collaborations with the dance artist K.J. Holmes. She is the recipient of a 2010-11 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and is the co-publisher with Tim Roberts of Counterpath Press. She teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lives in Denver where, with Tim and others, she runs a small bookstore/gallery/performance space called Counterpath.