Swimming Upside Down / Karen Kao
@karenkao.bsky.social
Karen Kao writes lyric essays chosen as a 2024 Notable for The Best American Essays, winner of the 2022 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest, and nominee for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Deeply grateful to see my words in this issue of Brevity.
February 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Deeply grateful to see my words in this issue of Brevity.
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Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth is a ceremonial poem sequence that encounters the body as a site of loss and regeneration, faith and doubt, trauma and hope, through excavating meaning from the mundanities of a broken society and healthcare system.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth is a ceremonial poem sequence that encounters the body as a site of loss and regeneration, faith and doubt, trauma and hope, through excavating meaning from the mundanities of a broken society and healthcare system.
@adrianf.bsky.social
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"Whatever and however it is you write—you need to care deeply about the subject matter. Anything less is a waste of time." Karen Kao @karenkao.bsky.social is this week's featured author from the current issue, interviewed by @karenkay.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
Smoke & Mirrors with Karen Kao - SmokeLong Quarterly
This is an incredibly affecting piece, written in such a measured way. Can you share where it came from for you? A couple of years ago, I took a workshop with the wonderful Dinty W. Moore. One of his ...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Whatever and however it is you write—you need to care deeply about the subject matter. Anything less is a waste of time." Karen Kao @karenkao.bsky.social is this week's featured author from the current issue, interviewed by @karenkay.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...
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very proud of M's new concise essay in this issue - won't you give it a read?
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January 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
very proud of M's new concise essay in this issue - won't you give it a read?
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January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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January 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So excited to have words in this issue of @smokelong.bsky.social
SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 86 is live. Featuring the six finalists of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) and four stories from this quarter's general submissions. It's wonderful.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:31 PM
So excited to have words in this issue of @smokelong.bsky.social
So pleased that this should be my first post on Bluesky
today we have a wonderful creative nonfiction piece by Karen Kao @karenkao.bsky.social !!
it's about a young woman from "the wrong side of Los Angeles" who starts going to a prestigious east coast law school. there she meets a woman & they get involved...
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it's about a young woman from "the wrong side of Los Angeles" who starts going to a prestigious east coast law school. there she meets a woman & they get involved...
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RUN by Karen Kao
Back then, the law center sat in a squat square flanked on one side by a free needle exchange and on the other by a flophouse that rented its rooms by the hour. I was late to class. I think it was Civ...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:13 PM
So pleased that this should be my first post on Bluesky