poetry reading

  • Anti-war Poetry Reading: No Edges on a Sphere

    A Veterans Day poetry reading by NatureCulture poets with an ecopoetic view of war and peace: Rodger Martin, a Vietnam War vet, and Karina Lutz, an antiwar vet, will be held Saturday, November 7, online.

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  • Poets at Porch Fest!

    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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  • GREENFIELD FIRST SUNDAY WORD featured poets: SUNDAY, FEB. 1, 2026, 1:30pm—3:30pm open mic 1:30 features start at 2:30 Where The LAVA Center, 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA https://thelavacenter.org/events/greenfield-first-sunday-word-2025-04-06-2025-05-04-2026-01-04-2026-02-01

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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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  • Wow. Never been coached on writing a blog post before. Repeating your search terms is apparently a thing. If I were editing this piece, I’d take all that repetition out. So old school. Anyway, it was fun to write.

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  • One advantage of the Fringe Fest having to go virtual this year is that all the performances were recorded. You can watch any and all for a $20 “All Access Pass” through the Wilbury Theatre. After you purchase your pass on http://fringepvd.org/all-access-viewing.html, you’ll  get a link and password via email. Scroll through the delicious offerings…

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  • Virtual poetry reading!

    I had several poetry readings scheduled for April, with the launch of my new book, but–well you can guess. So I’ve been making videos. Not exactly professional quality, but here’s a sample, just for a taste. The poem is called “Equally Invisible”: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pAyYMCZA3NEvKmN37 .  

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  • The first global pandemic

    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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  • UPCOMING POETRY READINGS

    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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  • In London for the solstice? “New kinds of weather” will be performed as part of Arachne Press’s Solstice Shorts festival. https://arachnepress.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/solstice-shorts-logo-copy.jpg Details about the festival here and the anthology here. Update! Here‘s a video of one of the readings. Here‘s another.

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