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Cara’s Year In Books

Cara’s 2025 Year in Books

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Vincent Scarpa

1,478 books | 539 friends

Jacob Wren

6,564 books | 3,855 friends

Alex Helm

108,114 books | 1,966 friends

M T

2,847 books | 250 friends

Nicholas

1,886 books | 666 friends

Paul Davidson

90 books | 1,001 friends

Tobias

6,152 books | 670 friends

MaryEllen Sanger

1,553 books | 158 friends

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Cara Benson

Goodreads Author

Website

https://www.carabensonwriter.com/

Genre

Memoir, Personal Essay, Poetry

Member Since

June 2017

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Cara Benson is the author of the forthcoming memoir An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment. (May 2026, HCI Books)

Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Terrain, and selected for Best American Poetry. Her first book, a collection of prose poems called (made), was well reviewed in The Huffington Post and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the bpNichol Award. Benson wrote a series on walking in the woods for the Best American Poetry website and taught poetry in a NY State Correctional Facility for eight years. She lives in a former church on the ancest ...more

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Cara Benson’s books

Average rating: 4.58 · 72 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards by Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Erica Kaufman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E. Tracy Grinnell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment 4.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	made 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spell/ing ( ) Bound by Kathrin Schaeppi, Cara Benson (Goodreads Author), Kai Fierle-Hedrick 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars