antiwar

  • 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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  • Poetry Collections and a Play

    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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  • Madrid Review peace issue

    The Madrid Review‘s new issue’s antiwar/anti-oppression theme features poems for Palestine and Ukraine. Find me there in a few days. Meanwhile, their blog features the issue’s authors, including my own responding to Ukraine and the use of artificial intelligence in militarism. You can sign up here to receive the PDF free when in comes out…

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  • 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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  • Sons of/and Money

    written on the occasion of Trump dropping the so-called “Mother of All Bombs” on Afghanistan Sure, some of us have never seen war,but we’re still bitter.Our country is still bombing.Our country that says we get to decide. We’ve never wanted to bombcountries we’ve never seenbut hear are full of people. Our country doesn’t want us to…

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  • War on We

    Which war are we fighting now?I can’t keep track.Did we win one?And who are we, anyway?I was fighting the war on poverty,you, the war on drugs.I was on drugs. Were you on poverty?War on terror was terrifying–is it over? How will we know?It’s all a black box, a black site.When some man with a map…

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  • The Dewdrop

    The contemplative website, The Dewdrop, nominated my poem “Encircling Earth: the Center of Our Gravity” for a Pushcart Prize. https://thedewdrop.org/2024/11/22/pushcart-prize-2025-nominations/

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  • Encircling Earth, again

    As peace pilgrims are walking together again, like the Pilgrimage for Peace, “Encircling Earth, the center of our gravity” is being republished. Find the updated poem at the lovely literary online journal, The Dewdrop here: https://thedewdrop.org/2024/02/25/karina-lutz-encircling-earth-the-center-of-our-gravity/. May all beings know peace.

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