Karen Poppy has work published or forthcoming as detailed below.

Highlights and Accolades

Her poems, “Austria by Train” and “Walt Whitman Celebrates Himself,” are included under Holocaust Poetry in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and Archives in Washington D.C.

Karen Poppy’s poem, “The Aisle Not Taken,” has been chosen by the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith, to read on her national radio show and podcast, The Slowdown.

Two of her poems, “Which to Prefer” and “A Horse Sees Things Differently” made it to the quarterfinal stages of the 2018 Able Write Prize for Poetry. A group of her poems have been shortlisted by The Raw Art Review for their 2018 Walt Whitman Prize for Poetry.

Other of her poems have been longlisted for the 2018 American Literary Review Contest for Poetry. One of her poems, “Standing in the Kitchen,” has been nominated for Best of the Net by The Cortland Review: http://www.cortlandreview.com/bestofnet.php. Her poem, “Marina Safeway, San Francisco,” is a finalist in Naugatuck River Review’s 11th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest, and also appearing in the anthologies Fog and Light and Ferlinghetti Tribute Anthology.

Karen Poppy has two chapbooks published with Finishing Line Press, and another chapbook published with Homestead Lighthouse Press. Available chapbooks.

She has compiled her first collection of poetry, written her first and second novels, and is at work on her second poetry collection and third novel. Karen Poppy is an attorney licensed in California and Texas. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Poetry and Music Collaborations

Four of her poems are set to music for soprano (art song) by composer Myron Silberstein, and this collaboration is titled Any Moment Lonely. One of the songs has been premiered by Grammy nominated soprano Laura Dixon Strickling, and will be recorded on her album titled 40@40.

Karen Poppy’s poetry and translation collaboration with Octavio Quintanilla, “Gacela V, Del niño muerto, Un diálogo con Lorca” has been set to music by composer Myron Silberstein for two voices (duet).

List of Publications (in reverse chronological order):

Poetry:

2022/2023:

• Magpie Messenger Literary Magazine (“Magpie,” “To Earth,” and “Last Vision,” Issue 2, Autumn Equinox 2022)
• Grim & Gilded (“RBG,” Special Issue to Support Abortion Rights, September 22, 2022)
• Synkroniciti (“Genderless Mother,” Empowered Issue, September 2022)
• Amuse-Bouche – Lunch Ticket (“Little Shrimp,” Summer 2022: https://lunchticket.org/little-shrimp/)
• iō Literary Journal online publication, Refractions (“Ode to Burning Survival,” Summer 2022: https://www.ioliteraryjournal.com/refraction_karen_poppy.html)
• The Orchards (“The Embers of Our Secrets,” Summer 2022: https://orchardspoetry.com/)
• Miracle Monocle (“Better Mother,” Spring 2022 Issue: https://louisville.edu/miraclemonocle/issue-18/karen-poppy)
• Speak Poetry website (April 2022: https://speakpoetry.org/2022/04/14/karen-poppy/)
• Rescued: Tales of Queers and the Animals Who Love Them (Anthology) (“Feathered Finance,” forthcoming in 2022)
• Ferlinghetti Tribute Anthology (Jambu Press) (“Marina Safeway, San Francisco,” 2022)
• Sinister Wisdom (“Diving at the Lip of the Water,” forthcoming in 2023)
• Lavender Review (“Womb,” June 1, 2022: https://www.lavrev.net/2022/06/karen-poppy.html)
• Catamaran Literary Reader (“Lemons,” Spring 2022)
• Sky Island Journal (“Plea,” Issue 20, Spring 2022: https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issue-20-spring-2022/)
• The Bloom (“Recipe for Clearing Love Disasters” and “With Our Loneliness Glistening, Like That Live-Oak Tree, Like Your Beloved River, Singing,” February 17, 2022: https://www.lakecountybloom.com/two-poems-by-karen-poppy-2/

2020/2021:

• The Slowdown (“The Aisle Not Taken” was chosen by the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith, to read on her national radio show and podcast, The Slowdown)
• Cultural Daily (“Diving at the Lip of the Water,” November 18, 2021: https://culturaldaily.com/karen-poppy-diving-at-the-lip-of-the-water/?output=pdf)
• Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of Poets Who Live Here Anthology (Blue Light Press) (“Marina Safeway, San Francisco,” March 2021: https://www.amazon.com/Fog-Light-Francisco-through-Poets/dp/1421836890)
• Beltway Poetry Quarterly (“Spa Pass”: https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/karen-poppy/)
• Fauxmoir (“Valuation,” Winter 2021: https://fauxmoir.com/winter-2021-2?tag=Poppy)
• The Criterion (“Loss,” September 2021: https://www.the-criterion.com/V12/n4/Karen.pdf)
• Sheepshead Review (“Rapa Nui,” Summer 2021 issue, https://issuu.com/officialsheepsheadreview/docs/issuu)
• Confrontation Magazine (“Flame Upon Water,” 2021 print issue)
• Nixes Mate (“Cape Cod Tundra,” Summer 2021 issue, https://nixesmate.pub/issue-20-summer-2021/#cape-cod-tundra-karen-poppy, and also in Nixes Mate Anthology-In the Time of COVID)
• Seventh Quarry (“Sewing Lesson” and “Cats versus Antelopes,” in Issue 33, February 2021, and “You Tell Me of Stars” and “Epitaphs,” Issue 34, July 2021)
• Nixes Mate (“My True Life on this Earth,” Spring 2021: https://nixesmate.pub/issue-19-%C2%B7-spring-2021/)
• WMN Zine (“When It’s a Woman” and “The Eaten,” November 2020: https://www.wmnzine.com/two-poems-by-karen-poppy/)
• Night Music Journal (“Pebble,” November 2020)
• Magma (“Gacela V, Del niño muerto, Un diálogo con Lorca,” collaboration with Octavio Quintanilla, Issue 78, November 2020)
• Praxis Magazine: (“Cat Nap” and “To My Grandmother, a Letter,” September 27, 2020: http://www.praxismagonline.com/karen-poppy-two-poems/)
• Peregrine Journal (“Bounce,” Fall 2020 Issue)
• Plainsongs (“New Roots,” Summer 2020 Issue)
• Swimming with Elephants Publications (“Treehouse on Mars,” July 26, 2020: https://swimmingwithelephants.com/2020/07/26/weekly-write-treehouse-on-mars-by-karen-poppy/)
• Ecozon@ (“Love Song of Existence” and “Pollination,” Vol. 11, No. 1: http://ecozona.eu/article/view/3017/4150)
• Naugatuck River Review’s 11th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest Finalist (“Marina Safeway, San Francisco,” http://www.lulu.com/shop/lenora-press/naugatuck-river-review-issue-23-contest-issue/paperback/product-24391763.html)
• peculiar (“Sonoma Wildfire” and “Defining,” https://www.peculiarjournal.com/product-page/peculiar-a-queer-literary-journal-7-print)
• The American Journal of Poetry (“The How-to Guide of Giant Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger variani),” Volume 8, January 1, 2020: http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v8-poppy.html)

2019

• Golden Walkman Magazine (“Hineni,” Podcast, December 2019: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/golden-walkman-magazine/e/66155495)
• Catamaran Literary Reader (“Telling it Slant,” Issue 27)
• Speckled Trout Review (“Redwoods,” Fall 2019 Issue)
• Queen Mob’s Teahouse ( “Made Plain,” “Badass Mermaid,” “Upper Antelope Canyon,” “Rebirth,” “Darkness,” and “Baffle Gate,” September 2019)
• Cortland Review (“What We Find” and “Standing in the Kitchen,” Issue 82: https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/82/poppy.php#1)
• Martin Lake Journal (“Volcanic,” Volume II)
• Poetry Quarterly (“Purchased with a Higher Principle,” Spring 2019)
• Glintmoon (“Boy Capel,” https://glintmoon.com/issue1/poppy-boycapel/)
• Elm Leaves Journal (ELJ), An Annual Print Literary Journal (“Genesis,” “Blackout” Edition)
• Poeming Pigeon – Sports Themed Issue (“What I Do,” May 4, 2019)
• SLANT (“Story I Told My Son (and Truths He Told Me),” May/June 2019)
• Blue Unicorn (“Winter’s Song in Spring” and “Coyotes,” April 2019 Issue)
• Hinchas de Poesía  (“El ritmo de la muerte,” Issue #23, March 2019: http://www.hinchasdepoesia.com/wp/el-ritmo-de-la-muerte/ )
• Blue Nib Magazine (“In Case of Emergency,” “The Trail He Made In the Snow,” “Concho,” and “Your Loss, My Imperfection,” Issue 37, March 15, 2019)
• Poetry Quarterly (“One Among Us,” Issue 35, January 2019: https://poetryquarterly.com/poetry-quarterly-issue-35/))
• Poetrybay (“Ode to a Gershwin Tune,” January 21, 2019)

2018

• Once Upon a Time in Alexandria: Reimagined Fairy Tales from Modern Voices (Curating Alexandria Book 3) (“A Changeling’s Tears,” published Winter 2018: Link to Kindle Book on Amazon)
• Nostos (“Graveyards,” “We Hold Each Other and Remain Here” and reprint of “On Your Birthday,” available for purchase: https://www.longshippress.com/online-store/Nostos-Poetry-Fiction-and-Art-Vol-II-No-2-p126501287)
• The Raw Art Review (“Federico, Graying at the Temples;” “To My Grandmother, a Letter;” “A River;” “With Our Loneliness Glistening, Like That Live-Oak Tree, Like Your Beloved River, Singing;” “Walt Whitman Celebrates Himself;” and “The River Hudson,” all shortlisted for The Raw Art Review – The Walt Whitman Prize for Poetry; “Federico…” is on p. 55 of the fall 2018 issue: Link to Raw Art Review 2018 Fall Issue)
• MORIA (“Grandma in Prada, Fishing” and “The Wednesday Gloves,” Issue 2, November 2018: “Grandma in Prada, Fishing” and “The Wednesday Gloves”)
• Plath Poetry Project (“Rejuvenation,” October 2018, https://plathpoetryproject.com/cut-and-by-candlelight-2018-retro/)
• Peacock Journal (“Félicette,” “Notre Dame Tower,” Afterwards,” and “Your Words,” October 2018)
• Blue Fifth Review (“Creation,” Poetry Special Issue, October 2018: https://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/poetry-special-five-poets-october-2018-18-7/)
• Gravel (“The Goodbye,” October 2018: https://www.gravelmag.com/karen-poppy.html)
• Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine (“Down Below,” September 24, 2018: https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/down-below-by-karen-poppy/)
• Beatdom (“Tyrannus Trump,” September 2018: http://www.beatdom.com/tyrannus-trump/)
• Meat for Tea (Volume 12, Issue 3, Camellia Sinensis, “First Morning” and “My Death,” September 2018)
• Carbon Culture Review Online (CCR) ( “Uncivil Liberal Beasts,” “A Woman’s Body–A Power Unto Itself,” and “Elizabeth,” September 2018)
• Plum Tree Tavern (“A Horse Sees Things Differently,” September 2018: https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/)
• ArLiJo (“New Moon” and “The Pot,” September 2018)
• Chaleur Magazine (Print Edition, “Miracles,” “What Holds There,” and “Two Scoops,” Summer 2018.)
• Poppy Road Review (“The Sea, the Ocean,” and “Sunrise,“ August 2018: https://poppyroadreview.blogspot.com/)
• Catamaran Literary Reader (“A Single Note in the Infinite,” August 2018: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/summer-2018/)
• Waterways [Ten Penny Players] (“The Selfish Fox,” Vol 39 #2 issue, July 2018)
• Degenerates: Voices for Peace [Weasel Press] (“Law School Internship” and “Another School Shooting,” July 2018)
• Poems “Austria by Train” and “Walt Whitman Celebrates Himself” are included under Holocaust Poetry in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and Archives in Washington D.C. (July 2018)
• The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (“Oysters on the Beach,” July-August 2018 issue: https://karenpoppy.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/oysters-on-the-beach-poem/)
• The American Journal of Poetry (“Walt Whitman Celebrates Himself” July 2018: http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v5-poppy.html)
• Better than Starbucks (translation of Neruda sonnet and “I Like When You Speak” June 2018: https://anthonywatkins.wixsite.com/btsjun2018/poetry-translations)
• The Lake, a UK literary webzine (“At Nezu Shrine” June 2018: http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry-archive/june18a/)
• Sky Island Journal (“Seams Opening in the Cloth of Dreams,” “Letter Home,” and “On Your Birthday” June 2018: https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issues/#/issue-5-summer-2018/)
• The Broke Bohemian (“Our Times” Spring 2018)
• Wallace Stevens Journal (“Lost Fire” Spring 2018: https://karenpoppy.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/lost-fire-poem/)
• Voices de la Luna (“Austria by Train” 2/15/2018 Volume 10, Number 2: https://karenpoppy.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/austria-by-train-poem/)
• Blue Mountain Review (“When Every Heaven is Horses,” “I Like Ferns Best,” and “Game of Trust” Issue 10, February 2018: https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/theblue10)

2017

• Young Ravens Literary Review (“After Winter,” “Prayer,” and “The Flower,” Issue 7, Winter 2017: http://www.youngravensliteraryreview.org/yr7-karen-poppy.html)
• Parody Poetry (“The Aisle Not Taken,” October 2017)

Non-Fiction:

The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr and Anne Frank (Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh) (Epistolary piece about Anne Frank, February 2019):
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamers-Anthology-Writing-Inspired-Martin/dp/109219682X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TY457YCOYO06&keywords=the+dreamers+anthology&qid=1557125110&s=gateway&sprefix=dreamer%27s+anthology%2Caps%2C395&sr=8-1)

Sunspot Lit (“Activation of a Sleeper Cell Poet,” Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2022): https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/02648e54-da59-4f41-9110-a5be25d4dace/downloads/Vol%204%20No%201%204-8-22.pdf?ver=1651598011982

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