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Poems in lit mags as of May 2026:

• “A Craving,” The Wayfarer III, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 9.
• “A Human Thrush,” The Nature of Our Times: The Gallery, Poets for Science (2024). https://natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/a-human-thrush/
• [Although the votives] and [A wedding ring spun], Poetry Mint Project at the Black Mountain Press, installed in the Poetry Mint Machine at the Flood Gallery in Asheville, NC.
• “Ash and Light,” Tulane Review (Spring 2015): 7. https://issuu.com/tulanereview/docs/tulane_review_spring_2015_issuu.
• “Ash Wednesday,” Heart of Flesh Literary Journal 3 (May 2020): https://heartoffleshlit.com/issue-three/karina-lutz/
• “At Beavertail Point”, S/tick, 13.2 (Winter 2018): 14, 32. https://www.dontdiepress.org/s-tick/Issue13_2.pdf; and Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2019): 26.
• “At Willow Point” and “Panes of Rain,” Clade Song VI (Summer 2016). www.cladesong.com/lutz.atwillowpoint.html
• “Anticipating the Akedah Moment,” Heart of Flesh Literary Journal 3 (May 2020): https://heartoffleshlit.com/issue-three/karina-lutz/.
• “Barbed Wire: I. A True Story” published as “Barbed Wire” in The Heartland Review (Fall 2019).
• “Barbed Wire: VI. My Father’s Story” published as “VI. My Father’s Story” in Plants & Poetry 9: Gravity’s Grave (2021). www.plantsandpoetry.org/ninth-issue-gravitys-grave-exploring-air-water-soil.
• “Barbed Wire: VIII. An Old Growth Border” published as “Barbed Wire: an Old Growth Border” in Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry (July 2020): 52.
• “Beaming,” For Women Who Roar #metoo ebook, 2020.
• “Bones to the Maple,” Blueline XXXVI (Spring 2015): 118.
• “Bushwhacking” and “Hold It” published in The Wayfarer IV, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 39.
• “Canoe,” “Little Green Bee,” “Locus of Control,” and “Path of the bee,” the RavensPerch (June 5, 2016). http://www.theravensperch.com/poetry-by-by-karina-lutz/; www.theravensperch.com/little-green-bee-by-karina-lutz/; www.theravensperch.com/locus-of-control-by-karina-lutz/; and www.theravensperch.com/path-of-the-bee/
• “Chestnut, Elm, Maple,” E-Scribes website (now defunct), 2007; Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects, I, no 1 (Spring 2016): 17. https://issuu.com/dharmaseeds/docs/wtr_journal_spr16_final1pg; and Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020): 48.
• “Concentric” and “In Lightning,” Written River V, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 21.
• “Conversation with Filaree,” Dark Mountain IX (2016): 162 – 3.
• “Corpse Pose” and “Equally Invisible,” The Bleeding Lion no. 2 (Summer 2015) pp. 60-1. http://issuu.com/thebleedinglion/docs/the_bleeding_lion_-_issue_2
• “Dandelion Root Tea,” S/tick, 13.2 (Winter 2018): 14, 32; and The Nature of Our Times Gallery (2024).
• “Dear AI,” Clockhouse XI (2024): 142.
• “Dear Emily,” Wilderness House Press 41 (11.1, Spring 2016). www.whlreview.com/no-11.1/poetry/KarinaLutz.pdf
• “Dear Karl, Dear Martin,” Catalyst, Prevention at the Intersections (April 2021): 27. www.acatalystjournal.org/
• “Death to the Escape Fantasy”; “No Life, No Art/No Art, No Life”; and “The Day after Veterans Day,” The RavensPerch (Sept. 2, 2019), https://www.theravensperch.com/death-to-the-escape-fantasy-by-karina-lutz/; https://www.theravensperch.com/no-life-no-art-no-art-no-life-by-karina-lutz/; and https://www.theravensperch.com/the-day-after-veterans-day-by-karina-lutz/
• “Diptych: Landscape of Consumption, Landscape of Production,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020): 46.
• “Dough,” S/tick (Winter 2016) 3.2:16. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38119451/Issue%203.2.pdf and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing (Spring 2022): 23.
• “Drone of Normalization”; “How to Read a Poem about War/How to Hear a Poem in War”; “War Solved Nothing”: the RavensPerch (Dec. 15, 2023). https://theravensperch.com/drone-of-normalization-by-karina-lutz/; https://theravensperch.com/how-to-read-a-poem-about-war-by-karina-lutz/; https://theravensperch.com/war-solved-nothing-karina-lutz/.
• “Encircling Earth: the Center of our Gravity,” Traprock Peace Center website, 2003. http://www.grassrootspeace.org/karina_lutz_encirclingearth.pdf/  and One People One Earth website: http://peacehq.tripod.com/PHQ_Peacemakers/KarinaLutz/EncirclingEarth.html Revised and republished in The Dewdrop, Feb. 25, 2024, https://thedewdrop.org/2024/02/25/karina-lutz-encircling-earth-the-center-of-our-gravity/. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Dewdrop. Excerpted in Tiny Seed Journal, Feb. 20, 2026: https://tinyseedjournal.com/2026/02/20/encircling-earth-the-center-of-our-gravity/.
• “Evening Primrose,” Buddhist Poetry Review X (Fall 2013). www.buddhistpoetryreview.com/archives/issue-ten/karina-lutz; and Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects (May 2016), https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2016/11/12/evening-primrose/
• “Faith,” The Listening Eye (Kent State University, 2026): 13-4. www.kent.edu/listeningeye/issues
• “Feathers,” Tiny Seed Literary Journal (Oct. 24, 2020). https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/10/24/feathers/
• “Gaping/Agape/Gaia,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020): 64.
• “Grace after Sex,” For Women Who Roar Volume 1: LGBTQ Pride Poems (July 2019), https://issuu.com/forwomenwhoroar/docs/spaces__1_
• “Half Smile,” PDXX Collective’s blog (Oct. 20, 2015). http://pdxxcollective.com/2015/10/20/half-smile/ PDXX Collective is now Visitant.
• “In Lime Rock Preserve,” Poecology V (Aug. 2015). http://poecology.org/issue-5/lutz/
• “In Praise of Farmers,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet (Vol. V, forthcoming 2026)
• “In the Temple of I-Want-to-Die-Cozy,” About Place Journal: Dignity as an Endangered Species, V, no. 3 (May 2019). https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/dignity-as-an-endangered-species/witnessing-voicing-wounds/karina-lutz/
• “In which I Approach-avoid my Mother’s Ghost Passive-aggressively,” The Operating System, Ex-Spec Po blog (June 21, 2019). https://medium.com/the-operating-system/ex-spec-po-presents-in-which-i-approach-avoid-my-mothers-ghost-passive-aggressively-by-karina-fb02ba9e81db
• “Inside Job,” Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects (May 2017).  https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2017/04/17/inside-job-poem/ and Catalyst, Prevention at the Intersections (April 2021): 25. http://www.acatalystjournal.org/
• “Invention of Hell,” The Listening Eye (Kent State University, 2026): 15-6. https://www.kent.edu/listeningeye/issues
• “Jane Roe, III,” Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly 18 (Summer 2019). https://sfwp.com/jane-roe-iii-by-karina-lutz/
• “Looking Good for the Apocalypse,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet (Vol. IV, 2023): 69-70.
• “Mass Mourning,” Visitant (July 7, 2016). https://visitantlit.com/2016/07/07/mass-mourning/ and https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2020/03/07/mass-mourning/
• “May the Child Be at Peace,” Narrative Northeast (Jan. 3, 2016). www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=3984
• “Midway through the Hike,” Green Living Journal (Fall 2006): 41. www.greenlivingjournal.com/page.php?p=9109.
• “Missing in Action,” Miracle Monocle 12 (Spring 2019). https://louisville.edu/miraclemonocle/issue-12/karina-lutz
• “Mommy’s Pin Curls,” Visitant (May 2, 2017). https://visitantlit.com/2017/05/02/mommys-pin-curls/
• “My Friends,”  The Transnational III (2015): 19.
• “New England Zen Perfectionists’ Entropy Haiku,” Lagom, (Dec. 2018): 36. https://www.theparagonjournal.com/current-issue-koan 
• “New Kinds of Weather,” Shortest Day, Longest Night, ed. Cherry Potts (Arachne Press: 2016): 58-9 ; and read  at The Solstice Shorts Festival 2016: Shortest Day, Greenwich, England, Dec. 21, 2016.
• “Our Turn/We Were Warned,” Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects (Summer 2018). https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2018/07/20/our-turn-we-were-warned/
• “Pandemic,” From Whispers to Roars (April 9, 2020). https://www.fromwhisperstoroars.com/quarantine-tales/2020/4/9/quarantine-tales-a-series-week-1
• “Place Names Come to Mean,” For Women Who Roar Volume 1: LGBTQ Pride Poems (July 2019), https://issuu.com/forwomenwhoroar/docs/spaces__1_
• “Self-countered Transference,” Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal (Fall 2015): 101. http://show.wnmu.edu/twistedvine/files/2015/12/TV-Fall-2015.pdf
• “Self-coup: a Dialectic,” Poets Reading the News (Feb. 9, 2020). http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2020/02/self-coup-dialectic/ and Catalyst, Prevention at the Intersections (April 2021): 26. http://www.acatalystjournal.org/
• “Sensitive Fern as Sign,” Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry 4 (2022): 34-5.
• “Shattered, or: Infinite,” The Skeptic’s Kaddish (Feb. 6, 2022). https://skepticskaddish.com/2022/02/06/shattered-or-infinite/
• “So Light Passes through Leaf” for Tiny Seed Literary Journal Tree Issue Oct. 16 2019 online, Nov. 1 2019 print and ebook.
• “Sons of/and Money,” HerWords, Black Mountain Press (Winter 2021): 20-21.  https://theblackmountainpress.com/blog/herwords-is-out/. And Catalyst, Prevention at the Intersections (April 2021): 24. http://www.acatalystjournal.org/
• “Superpower,” Opus Terra and E-Scribes websites, now defunct, 2006.
• “Ten Paper Darts at One New Years,” Sediments Literary-Arts Journal (Happy Holidays issue 2016): 11 ff. https://sedimentslit.com/portfolio/ten-paper-darts-karina-lutz/ and WILDsound Writing Festival website (Aug. 6, 2024) https://festivalforpoetry.com/2024/08/06/epic-poem-ten-paper-darts-at-one-new-years-by-karina-lutz/
• “The Annotated Fable of the Progeny of Bitcoin and Art,” scissors & spackle, 19 (June 30, 2022). https://scissorsandspackle.net/the-annotated-fable-of-the-progeny-of-bitcoin-and-art/
• “The Bitterness of the Ancestresses/Spit upon Me,” Incandescent Mind, II (Winter 2017).
• “The Brightest Moon in the History of the Universe,” The Wayfarer, (Autumn 2019): 51.
• “The Council,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020): 69. https://ricovidarchive.org/items/show/8334
• “The Measure of Extinction,” Fathom Journal (June 29, 2021). https://www.fathommag.com/stories/the-measure-of-extinction
• “The Monarch Effect,” Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020): 35-6. https://ricovidarchive.org/items/show/8334
• “The Nettle Whisperer,” Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation (2023): ; and The Nature of Our Times Gallery (2024).
• “The Snake, Fearless in the Sun,” Green Living Journal (Fall 2013): 9.
• “[Although the votives…]” and “[A wedding ring spun…]” haiku published through the Poetry Mint machine at the Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC, by the Black Mountain Press.
•  “Upon Ascending into the World Trade Center,” anthologized in Echoes of Mercy, Salve Regina University, spring 2015. https://salve.edu/sites/default/files/filesfield/documents/Mercy%20Anthology%20book.pdf
• “Welcome to the Anthropocene, Era of Errors,” Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects, I, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 41. https://issuu.com/dharmaseeds/docs/deep_times_journal_summer_2016
• “What a Fragile Earth it is without a God./What a Violent One it is with One,” Heart of Flesh Literary Journal 3 (May 2020). https://heartoffleshlit.com/issue-three/karina-lutz/
• “Wilderness Frontier Desert,” The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. Edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler, Paloma Press, San Mateo, CA (2025): 158-9.
• “With/in,” Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects, VII, no. 1 (Spring 2022). https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2022/03/11/with-in/
• “Who,” Buddhist Poetry Review X (Fall 2013). www.buddhistpoetryreview.com/archives/issue-ten/karina-lutz

Books:

• Preliminary Visions, Homebound Publications (2020).
• Post-Catholic Midrashim, Finishing Line Press (2019).

Play:

• Consensuality is available through New Play Exchange.