Karen Poppy has work published or forthcoming as detailed below. 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. She has recently compiled her first collection of poetry, written her first novel, and is at work on her second poetry collection and second novel. Karen Poppy is an attorney licensed in California and Texas. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

List of Publications (in reverse chronological order):

Poetry:

2019

• Hinchas de Poesía  (“El ritmo de la muerte,” Issue #23, forthcoming)
• SLANT (“Story I Told My Son (and Truths He Told Me),” May/June 2019)
• Martin Lake Journal (“Volcanic,” forthcoming)
• Blue Nib Magazine (“In Case of Emergency,” “The Trail He Made In the Snow,” “Concho,” and “Your Loss, My Imperfection,” forthcoming: Issue 37, March 15, 2019)
• Tokyo Poetry Journal (“Truth Flashes,” forthcoming)
• peculiar (“Sonoma Wildfire” and “Defining,” forthcoming)
• Poeming Pigeon – Sports Themed Issue (“What I Do,” forthcoming)
• Blue Unicorn (“Winter’s Song in Spring” and “Coyotes,” forthcoming)
• 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: https://www.facebook.com/notes/poetrybay/ode-to-a-gershwin-tune/2164276070289996/)

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)
• Elm Leaves Journal (ELJ), An Annual Print Literary Journal (“Genesis,” forthcoming in “Blackout” Edition, fall 2018)
• 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: http://peacockjournal.com/karen-poppy-four-poems/)
• 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: http://www.carbonculturereview.com/poetry/a-womans-body-a-power-unto-itself-uncivil-liberal-beasts-elizabeth/)
• Plum Tree Tavern (“A Horse Sees Things Differently,” September 2018: https://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/)
• ArLiJo (“New Moon” and “The Pot,” September 2018: http://www.arlijo.com/)
• Chaleur Magazine (Print Edition, “Miracles,” “What Holds There,” and “Two Scoops,” under pen name Ina Brix, Summer 2018. Digital version for purchase, with proceeds to a good cause: https://chaleurmagazine.com/store/summer-2018-print-issue-digital-version)
• 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/)
• Chaleur Magazine (Online; “No One Was Gay Back Then” and “Oh, Susanna!,” under pen name Ina Brix, July 2018: https://chaleurmagazine.com/poetry/2018/7/1/no-one-was-gay-back-then-and-oh-susanna)
• 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:   https://www.brokebohemian.com/new-blog-1/2018/4/6/our-times)
• 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/karen-poppy.html)
• Parody Poetry (“The Aisle Not Taken,” October 2017)

Fiction:

Short Story Anthology (Bold Strokes Books) (“Battle of the Bands over Desperation Pie,” under pen name Ina Brix, January 2019: https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/escape-to-pleasure-lesbian-travel-erotica-by-sandy-lowe-and-victoria-villasenor-2748-b)

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)

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