• Poetry Readings for “No Edges on a Sphere”

    Book Launch & Salon, Magpie Farm & Art Patio Performance, 19 Depot Rd. (off Rte 112), Buckland, MA 2 pm, Sun., Oct. 18, 2026 Celebrate the book launch for No Edges on a Sphere, followed by music by Gilbert Karmon and Leatherleaf. Hosted by poet Janice Sorensen. Please RSVP at info@karinalutz.com. Unnameable Books, 66 Avenue…

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  • ….available Nov 1 here… https://www.nature-culture.net/no-edges-on-a-sphere

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  • Translated into Dance

    Translated into Dance

    Mignolo Dance translated the first section of “Encircling Earth: the Center of Our Gravity” into dance. Accompanying the poem with dance is a suggestion a writer’s group friend made way back when the poem was new, in 2002. Thanks Mignolo! I like the ending best… To learn about the amazing sisters collaborating as Mignolo Arts…

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  • Poem: “The Monarch Effect”

    Poem: “The Monarch Effect”

    A poem from the new collection, about news of the death of monarch butterfly conservationist Homero Gómez González.

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  • Poetry Collections and a Play

    Two published books and a new one coming out fall 2026

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  • Anti-war Poetry Reading: No Edges on a Sphere

    A Veterans Day poetry reading by NatureCulture poets with an ecopoetic view of war and peace: Rodger Martin, a Vietnam War vet, and Karina Lutz, an antiwar vet, will be held Saturday, November 7, online.

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  • The Nature of Our Times videos of poets reading their poems

    As if this anthology, The Nature of Our Times, were not luscious enough, now we have the poets reading their poems on video. Here’s my poem from the collection…

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  • “Faith” and “Invention of Hell”

    I’ve been losing it since I was taught to have it. There’s no having. It comes and goes, a spiral, a comet, with no predictable orbit.

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  • Cover Reveal!

    Cover Reveal!

    This poetry collection addresses the tangled issues of war, colonization, genocide, and the war on earth itself, relating them to the arbitrary notion of land “ownership.”

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  • Poets at Porch Fest!

    Shelburne Falls Porch Music Festival is next Sunday, July 12, 2026! I’ll be reading poetry at 2-2:50 in the Arms public library…

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