I've been a poet and journal keeper for most of my life. While in college I contributed to several publications including Colorado-North Review and Poetry-North Review. After college I attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics for two summers studying poetry with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Memoir Monday, an online publication, recently published a personal essay of mine about that experience titled "A Dream A Fish, Allen Ginsberg and Me".

I recently had two poems published in the book Relevant Poetry published by Irrelevant Press and have two more poems coming out in the December 2022 issue of Summation. My self-published zine titled "A Different More" Creating and Embracing Change While Aging has quite a fan base. I'm currently working on my first memoir titled "The Decade House".

In what feels like another lifetime ago, I created and owned a successful talent agency for 35 years.

Medium member since June 2020
Carol Shamon

Carol Shamon’s poetry and essays are slices of a real life examined and hopefully made better. She recently published a zine and is working on a memoir.