LGBTQ+

  • Why #postcatholicmidrashim?

    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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  • Post-Catholic Midrashim

    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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  • “Grace after sex” is a poem from my upcoming poetry collection, Post-Catholic Midrashim, for which Finishing Line Press will be taking preorders starting next week. The poem was published in  For Women Who Roar Volume 1: LGBTQ Pride Poems (July 2019) ebook anthology (https://issuu.com/forwomenwhoroar/docs/spaces__1_).  Also published in the anthology is my poem “How place names…

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  • Clade Song, a fun multimedia literary mag with clicks to animal sounds, published “At Willow Point” and “Panes of rain” this summer.  

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  • How place names come to mean   Place names come to mean events. New Orleans, Pompeii, Atlantis, Alexandria, —come to mean elements. Water, fire. Stone, as fire.   New Orleans used to mean Mardi Gras or a style of music. Bay of Pigs was a place people lived and still live.   Normandy, Pearl Harbor,…

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