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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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Seeing the anguish on both sides of war, anger turns to futility and compassion turns to constructive action. Here’s a diptych of poems on that theme, published this week in the RavensPerch: “How to Read a Poem about War/How to Hear a Poem in War” That was inspired by Joy Harjo’s “How to Write a…
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I. How to read a poem about war after Joy Harjo’s for “How to Write a Poem in a Time of War” It is not the news. Must approach like a cat: when ready. Must arm one’s armchair with handkerchiefs, soft arms for pounding. Heart must be ready to pound: open like a gate, not…
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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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Can’t tell from the snow falling out my window, but if it’s the spring issue, it must be spring, right? A poem from Preliminary Visions, “Dough,” was reprinted today in the spring issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing: https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/product-page/spring-2022-pleasure.
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Sound recording of spoken word version After Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Don’t Push the Button America” Dear AIPlease run the peace programthe world peace programstop the war programI know you are monitoring the situationI know you understand someof what we are sayingI know our phones are out on the streetsworldwideYou offer me photosprofessional photos of women…
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Criss-crossed feathers push aside cracked eggshell toward a less muted light. Wings don’t know yet which way is up. Only the center—the center of this opening— appears as home, as bursting, as too full for this broken shell. And now know the new light through white feathers–their spectral edges–and a new faith the crosshatch of…
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ben Alexander’s “The Skeptic’s Kaddish” website published my new poem about time, ancestresses, interbeing, and a mirror. I hadn’t named the poem, but he named the blog post “Shattered, or: Infinite,” which I think makes a fine title–one I wouldn’t have come up with myself, but love. So double thank you to ben Alexander. And…