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a house without a roof is open to the stars
Black Radish Books
"In a house without a roof is open to the stars, Mackenzie Carignan's poems make their way into the reader's consciousness by way of scrupulous perception. Carignan's acuity creates a vision of the world that the reader trusts even as it proves itself strange, eccentric."
--Elizabeth Robinson
Chapbook with Dancing Girl Press
dysphemism
Something put on.
Your origami eyes.
Deliver the animal.
Ecstatic.
Crown the least likely to benefit.
Switch the carving light.
There are animals who hate you.
I am an animal.
When I dreamt of him.
Like cloud.
Like touching me was easy.
He never did.
Then he did.
Where do I go?
Run from the solid, primal animal.
Run.
I am an animal.
I hear you from a distance.
The story had no distance, no directions for folding this flap or that corner.
It was by design.
Remove the keystone.
Again, emblem.
Again, butterfly and the inability to measure.
Listen.
Warm patterns, alternating breadth.
Leaving and going are two very different things.
Other chapbooks and experiments
“Shapes of Constant Contradiction.” Chapbook, Spring 2014 in conjunction with TypeCraft Writing and Dusie chapbook Kollektiv.
“Attachment Theory.” Chapbook, Spring 2011 by Prolepsis Press in Conjunction with Dusie chapbook Kollektiv.
“Another February.” Chapbook, Spring 2010 by Prolepsis Press in conjunction with Dusie chapbook Kollektiv.
“Metaphors for Miscarriage.” Chapbook, Fall 2008 by CR79 books in conjunction with the Dusie chapbook Kollektiv.
“& persona.” Chapbook by Prolepsis Press, distributed by Dusie.org, 2007 Dusie Kollektiv project.
“the listening lost.” E-chapbook distributed by Dusie.org, summer 2006.
in journals and anthologies
“negative space” We are the West Embers anthology, Twenty Bellows, April 2025
“patient” Acta Victoriana 149.1, March 2025
“indemnity,” “pulverulent,” and “diagonal” in South Dakota Review, issue 59.1, 2024
"cleek “ "danger, spring, sediment," and “satori.” Jet Fuel Review. Issue #24, Fall 2022
“insufflate,” “understory,” and “weal.” Poetry is Currency. April, 2021.
“chronometer.” Sonic Boom. Fall 2017.
30/30 participant for Tupelo Press, poem-a-day fundraiser participant
“Game Night,” and “Untitled” in Dusie, Issue 15, Spring 2014
Featured Poet at Poets for Living Waters project in August, 2010. Featured poems: “palliate” (reprint with permission), “a conversation with my 5-year old son while looking at oil-mired birds in the Gulf”, and “lacuna—a Haiti poem”.
"Palliate”, “the street below” and “& 30”. Ping Pong, Summer 2010.
"Something lost is the greatest evidence of ‘had’” and “If ever then.” Precipitate Journal/ Newfound, Volume I Issue 2, Summer 2010.
“& persona.” Anemone Sidecar, Chapter 6, Winter 2010.
"My wound is a simmering punctuation mark”, “born in the cleanest foliage”, “distraction is the blankest shape”, “the stone is now my wall” and “the leak is an everlasting stain”. Turntable & Blue Light, May 2009.
“Just Starting to Show.” The Mom Egg, an anthology of poems about motherhood, May 2008.
“Calculated Risk” with Jesse Crockett. Listenlight journal, February 2008.
“& lens.” Anti-poem, Issue 1, January 2008.
“Helixes” with Scott Glassman, complete work. > 2: An Anthology of New Collaborative Poetry, 2008.“
Ampersand poems.” CAB/NET Magazine, Issue 2, June 2007.
“Coming into,” Leave, Light, Entropy,” and “stopped. cry” in Another Chicago Magazine, Issue 47, 2007.
“Oracular”, “hospice”, “taps”, “arthropod” and “shorn”. Moria, Volume 9, Issues 2&3, 2007.
“Birthday Song.” Near South, 2006.
“Helixes” part 2 with Scott Glassman. Sugar Mule #26, 2006.
“tattoo.” Zafusy, Issue 9, 2006.
“Monumento Momento,” “Final Photograph,” and “Anatomy of a Scream”. Wicked Alice Chicago Edition, 2006.
“hiding”, “cloud, could, coudl", and “scapilary”. MiPOesias online journal, 2006.
“The Eventual Danger of Your Living.” Briar Cliff Review, Volume 18, 2006.
“Carnage, Pixels.” Fourteen Hills, Volume 12, no 2, 2006.
“Helixes” with Scott Glassman. Dusie, Issue 3, 2006.
Review of Jill Magi's chapbook CADASTRAL MAP in Printed Matter.
“Origo.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, University of Arizona, Issue 29.
“Reaching Into the Same Pockets.” The Chaffin Journal, 2005.
Pushcart Nomination. “Matisse’s Nudes.” Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Issue 2, 2003.
“Red Field.” Square One, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2001.
“Holding Through”, “The Wrong Color”, “Waiting Again”, “Little Star”. Into the Teeth of the Wind, Volume 2, Issue 2-3, 2001.
“The World Doesn’t Fit Into Our Veins” and “Online with Cole Swenson: an email interview”. Sniper Logic, Spring/Fall 2001 issue.