abortion
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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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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…
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Listening Tree Co-op, where I live and farm and write, launched the Spoken Word! series this year, to convene storytellers, poets, standup whatevers, even sit down comics–anyone who likes to share their words live. The first event last spring launched with Jackson Gillman’s storytelling inspiring us to plant trees, followed by an open mic. This…
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Awed by Rick Benjamin’s read of my chapbook: You have to start with the title of Karina Lutz’s new collection: as if you’ve just happened upon a small group of rabbis engaged in a deep conversation about the Catholic mass. Always open to interpretation, on the one hand; closed dogma on the other. Past this…
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Looking forward to spending time with this special Abortion Ban Protest#noabortionban issue of Santa Fe Writers Project quarterly, which contains my fiction-poem, “Jane Roe, III”: https://sfwp.com/jane-roe-iii-by-karina-lutz/.
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Prose-poem published by The Operating System on the theme of my upcoming chapbook, Post-Catholic Midrashim: https://medium.com/the-operating-system/ex-spec-po-presents-in-which-i-approach-avoid-my-mothers-ghost-passive-aggressively-by-karina-fb02ba9e81db. View at Medium.com
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In 1935, birth-control activist Margaret Sanger sat down with Mahatma Gandhi and tried to convince him to take up the cause of birth control. Consensuality, an interactive play informed by that conversation, explores the interrelationship of nonviolence and sexual relations, birth control and sexual assault. Gandhi argued against Sanger’s promotion of family planning partly because…