feminism
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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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My latest challenge is to communicate ancestor work, which is much subtler than any language, and which is genetic, cultural, and spiritual at the same time. Here’s a try, in the Spring 2022 issue of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects: https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2022/03/11/with-in/. It’s great being back on the journal as poetry editor,…
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Sound recording of spoken word version After Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Don’t Push the Button America” Dear AIPlease run the peace programthe world peace programstop the war programI know you are monitoring the situationI know you understand someof what we are sayingI know our phones are out on the streetsworldwideYou offer me photosprofessional photos of women…
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Ever had signals crossed with an affectionate colleague? Thought you were just friends? Ended up in some horror movie set at sunset by accident or ignorance? Thanks to the Berlin-based “The Wild Word” lit mag for publishing my first flash fiction: https://thewildword.com/fiction-karina-lutz/
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The bitterness of the ancestresses spit upon me What did I do wrong my child self wanted to know Nothing but to exist to be hers …………………………………..out of her body in spite ……………………………………………………of herself …………………………………..to spite perhaps …………………….her love …….her love of sex, surely her pulchritude, my dad would call it in us, her unwanted…
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“She has something to say,” used to be a thing people said to say worth listening to. A high recommendation coming from my favorite English professor, the poet and critic Cal Bedient. But at the time, in my mid-twenties, I didn’t know what I had to say yet. So the compliment was also a challenge.…
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Karina will be reading from Post-Catholic Midrashim and her new book, Preliminary Visions: April 8, 2020, 6 pm at Savoy Bookstore in Westerly April. 11, 7 pm at Stillwater Books in Pawtucket Preliminary Visions will be in select bookstores April 1. Call your favorite indie bookstore and let them know you’ll be looking for it–from…
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Got a poem published in a #metoo ebook anthology from For Women Who Roar today. https://forwomenwhoroar.bigcartel.com/product/vol-5-metoo-ebook. Trigger warning for child sexual abuse and other sexual violence throughout the book.
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On the heels of the latest statistics showing a precipitous decline in Roman Catholic Church membership and churchgoing in Rhode Island, Post-Catholic Midrashim gives an intimate and philosophical portrait of how and why one might leave. “The Roman Catholic Church may be the most successful cult in the history of the world,” Lutz says. “And…