Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
@kaylizpoet.bsky.social
poet | nature lover
author, Prayer Can Be Anything (2023) This Late Afternoon (2004)
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author, Prayer Can Be Anything (2023) This Late Afternoon (2004)
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New poem, Lines Written During Another Hottest Something or Other on Record, featured in Second Coming. Thank you Michael H. Broder for curating this necessary work. #poetry #resistance #climatecrisis #democracy #secondcoming
Second Coming No. 152 — June 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/indolent...
Second Coming No. 152 — June 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/indolent...
Second Coming No. 152 — June 20, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime
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June 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New poem, Lines Written During Another Hottest Something or Other on Record, featured in Second Coming. Thank you Michael H. Broder for curating this necessary work. #poetry #resistance #climatecrisis #democracy #secondcoming
Second Coming No. 152 — June 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/indolent...
Second Coming No. 152 — June 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/indolent...
Honored to have my poem His Departure Comes Over Me published in the latest Elysium Review.
Grateful to editor Stevie Edwards and the mission to uplift poetry that celebrates.
🔗 www.elysiumreview.com/karen-elizab...
#Poetry #ElysiumReview #KarenElizabethSharpe #Motherhood #NewPublication
Grateful to editor Stevie Edwards and the mission to uplift poetry that celebrates.
🔗 www.elysiumreview.com/karen-elizab...
#Poetry #ElysiumReview #KarenElizabethSharpe #Motherhood #NewPublication
June 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Honored to have my poem His Departure Comes Over Me published in the latest Elysium Review.
Grateful to editor Stevie Edwards and the mission to uplift poetry that celebrates.
🔗 www.elysiumreview.com/karen-elizab...
#Poetry #ElysiumReview #KarenElizabethSharpe #Motherhood #NewPublication
Grateful to editor Stevie Edwards and the mission to uplift poetry that celebrates.
🔗 www.elysiumreview.com/karen-elizab...
#Poetry #ElysiumReview #KarenElizabethSharpe #Motherhood #NewPublication
Reposted by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
It is true there is not enough beauty in the world.
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.
I am
at work, though I am silent.
—Louise Glück, from "October"
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.
I am
at work, though I am silent.
—Louise Glück, from "October"
January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It is true there is not enough beauty in the world.
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.
I am
at work, though I am silent.
—Louise Glück, from "October"
It is also true that I am not competent to restore it.
Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.
I am
at work, though I am silent.
—Louise Glück, from "October"
Reposted by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
January 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.
Reposted by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
—Anne Carson
—Anne Carson
December 2, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
—Anne Carson
—Anne Carson
Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year for my poem The Sixth Type:A Presciption from Editor Cristina Raskopf Norcross and Blue Heron Review. Congratulations to all of this year's nominees!
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blueheronreview.com
Blue Heron Review
“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.” ― Hafiz
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December 1, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year for my poem The Sixth Type:A Presciption from Editor Cristina Raskopf Norcross and Blue Heron Review. Congratulations to all of this year's nominees!
blueheronreview.com
blueheronreview.com
Thank you Halfway Down the Stairs! Almost missed this sweet pub feom September … halfwaydownthestairs.net/2024/09/01/i...
In the Humid Afternoon, by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
We were riding our bikes at sunset languid breezes soaking my skin when I started to think about the way his fingers had traced the lines of my palm mapping distant routes through the humid aftern…
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November 25, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Thank you Halfway Down the Stairs! Almost missed this sweet pub feom September … halfwaydownthestairs.net/2024/09/01/i...
