Lit Pub interview with Carly Inghram

Lit Pub recently interviewed Carly Inghram about her new poetry collection The Animal Indoors, which won the 2020 CAAPP Book Prize. Interviewer Tiffany Troy led the conversation about Inghram’s creative process, her relationship to spirituality, how her work grapples with her identity, and more.

We can use things in the material world in order to find beautiful, or insert word there or insert object of desire there. Longing, craving, etc. I think we can use physical things in the world to create what is being longed for.