imagine alternatives
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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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Shelburne Falls Porch Music Festival is next Sunday, July 12, 2026! I’ll be reading poetry at 2-2:50 in the Arms public library…
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Still one of my favorite poems. Previously published by The RavensPerch. “The ‘path’ comes into existence only when we observe it.” —Werner HeisenbergA bee hovers—facing, as I do,the wedge of sky pointing down the canyon,absorbing heat from the granite walls.We are nearly still—wings beat precisely to stay in place.Heart beats preciselythe languid pulse of sitting.I…
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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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As peace pilgrims are walking together again, like the Pilgrimage for Peace, “Encircling Earth, the center of our gravity” is being republished. Find the updated poem at the lovely literary online journal, The Dewdrop here: https://thedewdrop.org/2024/02/25/karina-lutz-encircling-earth-the-center-of-our-gravity/. May all beings know peace.
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My new poem, “Looking Good for the Apocalypse,” is in this wonderful third volume of the Voices of the Earth anthology. I’ll be reading it at one of the book launch events April 11 at the RI Audubon’s Nature Center in Bristol, RI: https://asri.org/learn/naturecenteraquarium.html.
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“The annotated fable of the progeny of Bitcoin and art,” was published in scissors & spackle, 19 (June 30, 2022). This poem has developed a lot in the nine years since the first draft, when the idea of Trump running for president wasn’t cognitively possible. When he ran, I took him out, as he was…
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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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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/