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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 is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Consequence and Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives with her family in Spokane, Washington. 

Publications

Chicago Quarterly Review Vol. 42, Fall 2025.

"West Elk Creek"

Literary Mama January/February 2026.

“My Son and the Moon”

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