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  My poems and stories  develop in partnership with my process of painting and drawing.

Every story begins with the storyteller. Yet, stories deepen with new layers when seen or heard by readers and viewers. 

You're invited to explore my images &  poems and, perhaps, you'll discover new stories along the way. 

The original artwork of these images is available for individual purchase. Images can also be licensed as illustrations.

 Breathing into Words
Find poems and musings on my blog

Indulge your imagination as you read through, Zero Hour, my debut poetry collection published by Silver Bow  Publishing.
​Cover art and poetry by Carla Stein

"As well as being a fine poet, Stein is also an accomplished visual artist who works in various media ...  she has the painter’s eye for detail, the sharply defined image, the right depth of field, the perfectly framed vignette. All of that is true, of course. But what struck me was how elements of her poems resembled her graphic art in other ways. The components are balanced, connected, form a proportional whole. The poems never seem rushed or incomplete. There is a complexity and subtlety to them that invites rereading." 

​Read all of  Ken Cathers review of  Zero Hour

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Published by Tigerpetal Press, Warp and Weft is a handbound chapbook featuring poems & illustrations by Carla Stein

“As the title suggests, this richly rendered offering by poet, Carla Stein, is a woven thing, a single cloth of meaning, music and image. It stitches “grieving pearls” to the “trill-talk” of eagles, climate assessments to Emily Dickenson, “squirrels dragging sunflower heads” to “all the things that have blown away.” And threaded throughout is a steady defense of the organic. Human dominion meets “the eyes of typhoons” and “moss eaten pavement.” Hierarchical thinking gets dragged “back to sea.” We need the news the poet brings, and Warp and Weft brings it. Take it in your hands. Read deeply. It’s a clue.”

  - Rob Lewis, author of The Silence of Vanishing Things
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Read Heidi Greco's review here

Bill Arnott had this to say about Warp and Weft

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Illustrations and book covers are one of my favourite ways to  meld words and visuals together.  Need illustrations for your own work?  Let's talk.