Publications

Karen Poppy has work published or forthcoming as detailed below.

Highlights and Accolades

Published in the anthology, Qualia Nous, Vol. 2, Karen Poppy’s poem, “Ghost In The Machine,” is nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023.

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.

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

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 Light on the Walls of Life: A Tribute Anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Her debut poetry collection, Diving At The Lip Of The Water, is published by Beltway Editions.

She has compiled her second collection of poetry, written her first and second novels, and is at work on her third 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 soprano Laura Dixon Strickling, and is recorded on her album titled 40@40: https://www.brightshiny.ninja/40-at-40. This album has been nominated for a Grammy.

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).

Another collaboration with composer Myron Silberstein is currently underway, setting Karen Poppy’s poems “Morning Routine” and “What Life Asks Of You” to music.

A collaboration with composer Jonathan Stinson, in which he set a poem by Karen Poppy to music as a wedding present for one of his students, has resulted in the choral work, “When You Meet Your Soul.” They are also collaborating on an opera.

Karen Poppy is collaborating with composer Jane K, who has set her poem “Flow” to music.

Additionally, Karen Poppy is collaborating with composer Gerda Blok-Wilson, who has created a choral work with her poem “Anew.”

List of Publications (in reverse chronological order):

Poetry:

2024:

  • Lavender Review (“Happiness,” Issue 29, June 1, 2024, forthcoming.)
  • Chiron Review (“Love The Semi-Colon,” Winter 2024 Issue, forthcoming.)
  • Voices (“Garden Lioness,” Poetry 2024 Issue, forthcoming.)
  • Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, Issue 28 THE NATURE OF NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE (“The Threads Of My Grief,” forthcoming.)
  • Exacting Clam (“Bat Outta” and “While You Recover In The Hospital,” forthcoming.)
  • Thin Places and Sacred Spaces Anthology (“Suspension,” forthcoming.)

2022/2023:

2020/2021:

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

2017

Non-Fiction:

The Memoirist Quarterly (“Only Love,” August 2023): The Memoirist Quarterly

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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