Great Turning
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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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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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I. Standing, feet naked to the earth. Walking, the sensation of flow from heel along the outer edge of sole to outer ball, inner ball, the rhythm of it. Like the sleek shifting weight of a running cougar: the ripple and the grace in the movement. Touching ground, bending knee, taking weight, pushing off, finding…
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One fun thing about publishing on the internet, is sometimes a poem gets accepted for publication and you forget about it for nine months before looking it up. Here’s one, “Pandemic,” about this corona, this crown of the baby’s head near birth, the light that gets around the eclipse, this glimpse of making way for…
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The Youth Guest Editorial Board of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects invites you to submit for the upcoming Aug/Sep 2020 issue crafted by young people. We welcome submissions of proposals or final content that aligns with this issue’s theme, which orients around the Seven Generations Exercise of the Work That Reconnects.…
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Prelminary Visions is available directly from me or certain bookstores. From the cover: “In the deep woods, hikers say, if you feel you are being watched by an animal, you probably are. Preliminary Visions creates moments of being, moments of relation, moments of meaning-making—frequently with that sense of being observed by a silent witness and…
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Okay, so technically, #COVID19 not the first global pandemic, but maybe the first of this magnitude. Maybe there will be more that make the 1918 flu look well contained. So we’ll look back at this as the first. Sobering thought in a time of many sobering thoughts. But here’s a spin: collapsing economic systems offer…
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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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My second poetry collection, Prelminary Visions, is at the printer and is now open for preorders through the publisher, Homebound Publications. In the deep woods, hikers say, if you feel you are being watched by an animal, you probably are. Preliminary Visions creates moments of being, moments of relation, moments of meaning-making—frequently with that sense…