Carie Juettner

Attics, Windows, and Weirdness

Happy Monday the 13th! Muahahahaha! I realize it’s usually Friday the 13th that you have to beware of, but once you see what I have to share with you today, I think you’ll agree that this date has a sinister side too. The Horrors of Standardized Testing First, it’s STAAR testing week. If you’re aContinue reading “Attics, Windows, and Weirdness”

Vision+Voice 2019 / Why Poetry Matters

I almost didn’t make it to the Vision+Voice reception this year. Teaching all day + Writing Club + grading + trying to perfect that PowerPoint for Monday, and suddenly it was 6:30PM, and I was still in my classroom, and the Vision+Voice reception was starting across town in half an hour. For a quarter ofContinue reading “Vision+Voice 2019 / Why Poetry Matters”

Politics aside

Happy National Poetry Month! Today I’d like to share a little haiku I wrote that was first published in The Texas Observer in 2015. Naomi Shihab Nye, who chose the poem for publication, said about my work: “I love Carie Juettner’s understated twist of observational loveliness in this tiny poem. When people in other states ask, asContinue reading “Politics aside”