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poetry

Alyse Carlson is a practicing pediatrician, poet, and a student in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review and Consequence and is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Consequence and Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives with her family in Spokane, Washington. 

Publications

Consequence Vol 18.1, Spring 2026.

“Expectant”

https://consequenceforum.org/product/volume-18-1/

Literary Mama January/February 2026.

“My Son and the Moon”

https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/01/my-son-and-the-moon

Chicago Quarterly Review Vol. 42, Fall 2025.

"West Elk Creek"