feminism
-
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…
-
The RavensPerch published three of my poems today. “No life, no art/no art, no life” takes a “yes, and…” approach to evolution: https://www.theravensperch.com/no-life-no-art-no-art-no-life-by-karina-lutz/ Then there’s a diptych, “Death to the escape fantasy,” with one part for my white friends who think they’ll just skip country when the going gets tough enough (“I. Whiteness is marked,…
-
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…
-
“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…
-
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/.
-
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
-
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…
-
The latest issue of the feminist lit blog, S/tick, has two poems of mine: “At Beavertail Point,” my queerest yet, and “Dandelion Root Tea,” the third of my herbarium to be published. The herbarium poems will be part of a performance-&-workshop at the upcoming RI Herb Festival July 21, 2018, in Coventry, RI. S/tick is…
-
Clade Song, a fun multimedia literary mag with clicks to animal sounds, published “At Willow Point” and “Panes of rain” this summer.
-
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,…