“On Poetry and Community” Poet Laureate Fellow Essay in Academy of American Poets/Poets.org, 3/2024
“Mother’s Day” in Infertilities, A Curation edited by Elizabeth Horn, Maria Novotny and Robin Silbergleid, Wayne State University Press, 9/19/2023
“Unspooled” and “Love Letter to a Burning World” in Poets.org/Academy of American Poets, 2023
“Now we are house cats,” in Sad Girl Review, 5/6/2023
“When You Left for Portland” in Ms. Aligned 4: Coming of Age, edited by Donna Lee Miele, El Leon Literary Arts, Mānoa Books, Ms. Aligned Books, 2023
“The Family Stories” in MUTHA Magazine, 1/27/2023
“Split Open” in POETica REViEW, Winter 2022/2023
“My Wife Who Became My Husband” and “Sashay” in the Arlington Literary Journal, 12/2022
“Love Letter to a Burning World,” “June 2020: Alarm goes off,” “The Fragility of Home,” “The Gods in the Middle of Election Week,” “I am a woman of almost 62 years old,” “You’re Eyes Are Seacolor but Do You Remember?” Not So Perfect Storm: Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2022 edited by Gerda Govine Ituarte Ed.D, Shabda Press, 2022
“My Wife Who Became My Husband” in MetroWeekly D.C. OutWrite Issue, pages 42-43, 7/2022
“I Am a Woman of Almost 62 Years Old” in We Were Not Alone: a Community Building Art Works Anthology edited by Hari Alluri and Seema Reza, Community Building Art Works, 2021
“Unpacked” in Soren Lit, 11/11/2021
“The Fragility of Home” in Anecdote Magazine, 9/2021
“June 2020: Alarm goes off,” in Altadena Poetry Review, 8/2/21
“The View Changes” in Sledgehammer Lit, 7/15/2021
“This Is What I Want You to Know” in Mutha Magazine, 7/2/2021
“Superwoman on Red Bull” in Sledgehammer Lit, 6/13/2021
“Happy Face” in Anti-Heroin Chic, 5/26/2021
“Love Letter to a Burning World,” “Unspooled,” and “When You Left for Portland” in Call Me {Progress} Literary Journal (University of Alabama), 5/2021
“Dying Gardenia” in Global Poemic, 2/13/2021
“We Have Pets” in Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage and Stillbirth, edited by Whitney Roberts Hill and Elizabeth Harris, Life in 10 Minutes Press, 2020
“What Is Left” in IN ISOLATION, an anthology: a public literary series project of Avenue 50 in collaboration with Alternative Field and published by Alternative Field Notes, 12/2020
Oxytocin in OyeDrum, 11/25/2020
“Social Distance” in MUTHA Magazine, 11/19/2020
“Each Day” and “Pandemic Pacing: 20 Steps in the Early Days” in MUTHA Magazine, 9/17/2020
“Each Day” and “Not Hand in Hand” appeared in the chapbook anthology Sheltering in Place, Staring Problem Press. 2020
“WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU NEED TO SEE SOMEONE ELSE’S LIGHT AND DARKNESS” in The Rumpus, 5/1/2020
“Secondary Inspections” included in the Altadena Literary Review 2020 edited by Teresa Mei Chuc and Hazel Clayton Harrison, Shabda Press 2020
“LA Stories: Urban Mountain Lion, South African Transplant,” “Bruised Arms” and “Dreaming Sobriety” in Anti-Heroin Chic, 4/12/2020
“Found: on Graph Paper,” “Jacaranda,” “Mornings Still Scare Me,” “Notes From Music Time at the Place Where People Who Forget Live,” “Provincetown Morning,” “Secondary Inspections,” “Smelled Like Seattle,” “Unmoored,” “Where I’m From” and “White Roses on Steroids” included in the Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019: Reflection. Resistance. Reckoning.Resurrection, edited by Gerda Govine Ituarte, Ed.D, Shabda Press, November 2019
The essay, “If This Is So, Why Am I?” (originally published in The Nervous Breakdown, 2/26/18) was selected as a notable in The Best American Essays, 2019. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
“Mother’s Day Triptych” MUTHA Magazine, 5/24/19
“Spinning” MUTHA Magazine, 3/28/19
“Mourning Morning” Entropy, 2/13/19
“Making Love to My Toes” Anti-Heroin Chic, February 2019
“Simpson Meadow” in the anthology #Queer, Vol. 2, edited by Sage Kalmus, Qommunicate Publishing, July 2018
“Un-enlisted” Collateral Magazine, 5/14/18
Three poems: “Secondary Inspections,” “Greyhound,” and “Confessions” Unlikely Stories Mark V, March 2018
“Mornings Still Scare Me” The Bitchin’ Kitsch, page 14, March 2018
“If This Is So, Why Am I?” The Nervous Breakdown, 2/26/18
“Stand Up Mom” in Brain, Teen Magazine, Volume 5. December 2017, longer version online (5/20/18) in Brain, Child Magazine
“In Defense of Family” in the anthology, Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women, Cleis Press, December 2017
“Things That Happened as My Black Son Got Older” Mutha Magazine, 11/13/17
“Regeneration” FullGrownPeople, 9/7/17
“1968: Sammy Boy and Mrs. Kumata Wore Paisley” Angels Flight Literary West, 9/4/17
“Haiku Series: On Waiting for Acceptance” Brevity Magazine Blog, 8/2/17
“Things That Happened in the Spring” Spectrum 11 Long Poem Heaven, 7/17/17
“Where I’m From” Hometown. Pasadena, 7/24/17
“I Do Exist” Hometown Pasadena, 6/26/17
“The Year of Eating Banana Splits” in the anthology Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ + Creative Anthology, edited by Sage Kalmus, Qommunicate Media, June 2017
“The Cat, the Kid and the Mom” Entropy, 4/4/17
“Heartbeat” Mutha Magazine, 3/20/27
Member Profile, Carla Sameth, PEN Center USA, PEN Center USA ePEN, 11/2016
“Feed Me, Fund Me, Leave Me Alone” Brain, Child, 5/23/16
“Letting Go” Full Grown People, 5/12/2016
“Writing About Difficult Topics, Bringing Dark Corners Into Light” Women Who Submit Blog, 4/20/16
“Donor X” Mutha Magazine, 4/18/2016
“Love in the Time of Foreclosures” 3/30/2016, Angels Flight Literary West
“We Have Pets” Mutha Magazine, 10/14/2015
“In Buzios” Hometown Pasadena, 10/11/2015
“Graduation Day at Addiction High” Narrative.ly, 12/09/2014. Selected by Longreads “Five Stories About Addiction” 12/14/2014, also ran in Into The Heart of Addiction, A Blog About Recovery, 6/17/2015
“Breaking Boundaries, Author Elissa Washuta Debuts with the Transformative ‘My Body is a Book of Rules'” Pasadena Weekly, 10/23/2014, co-written with Christina Bacock
“Ruggers Ready to Rumble” Pasadena Weekly, 2/26/2014
“’Just Friends’ No More”Pasadena Weekly, 7/2/2013
“In Defense of Family” Pasadena Weekly. 4/11/2013
“Bashing the Bashed” Pasadena Weekly. 12/05/2012
“One Day on the Gold Line” cover story, Pasadena Weekly 8/30/2012, print and online, also published in Magnolia: A Journal of Women’s Literature, Vol III, 9/10/2013
“Singing Mommy” La Bloga, 5/12/2012
Single Moms of South Pasadena, columns (listed below). AOL/South Pasadena Patch. to 2012
- “What Ants and Children Have in Common” 7/27/2012
- “Sex and the Single Mom: Can parents maintain viable love lives? Single Moms of South Pas ponder.” 6/26/12
- “A Post-Mother’s Day Tribute: Columnist Carla Sameth reflects on love for a mother-in-law no gone”5/23/12
- “Learning From Those Willing to Speak Out” 4/18/12
- “Homelessness: Could it Happen to You?” 4/18/12
- “My Fear of Being Homeless:Single Moms of South Pas Columnist ponders where the homeless are in South Pasadena and realizes that, fortunately, she will probably never be one of them” 4/5/12
- “Moms Who Share Almost Everything: Single Moms discover that barter and “paying it forward” is a key survival skill—and there’s no limit to what can be found in this informal exchange network” 2/29/12
- “Why Texting Became this Mom’s Lifeline: Columnist Carla Sameth finds herself in the midst of teen text culture” 2/27/2011
- “Why I’m Grateful to Be a Single Parent: Single moms take time to reflect on the ‘upside of single parenting.’” 11/24/2011
- “Single Moms of South Pas: My Hair Angel” When help comes knocking, open the door”(9/20/201
- “Single Moms of South Pas: The Myth of Time Management In honor of Labor day, Carla Sameth explores the myths of working smarter when there aren’t enough hours in the day.” 9/6/2011
- “Single Moms of South Pas: Traveling in Packs From Paris to camping, Carla Sameth shares her adventures in traveling.” “8/9/2011
- “Single Moms of South Pas: The Village and How I Found It, Part II” 6/30/2011
- “The Village and How I Found It One single mom’s journey to South Pas.” 6/29/2011)
“Wondering Why We Wander” Tikuun Magazine (guest blogger) April 14, 2011
“Heartbeat”in the book PaniK – Candid Stories of Life Altering Experiences Surrounding Pregnancy. Compiled by Melissa Ferina,122-124. Lulu.com. 2011, Print
Contributor to article, “Being a Mom: Ready to Laugh? The Crazy Stuff Our Kids Say. Got One to Add? IVillage.” IVillage.com: Health, Beauty, Pregnancy, Entertainment, Women’s Community and More – IVillage. Nov. 2010. Web. 28 Feb. 2011. Online
“Word Up! The Pasadena Writing Project Aims to Change Lives with the Stroke of a Pen” in Pasadena Weekly 06 May 2010 (Cover/Column with Jervey Tervalon, separate byline)
“Family Portrait” appeared in the book Bringing the Soul Back, Writing in the New Consciousness by Katya Williamson, 117-119. John Hunt Limited, 2009