Publications
The MacGuffin Vol. 391 Spring/Summer 2023
"I've Been Following You on Instagram"
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Moonstone Press Anthology Publications - purchase work from Moonstone Press
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Ekphrastic Poetry, 2023
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"We Won’t Talk of Suicide - after Modigliani’s Jean Hebuterne"
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Remembering Woodie Guthrie
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"After Woodie Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions - on the First Anniversary of the Insurrection"
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Vistas & Byways Literary Review, a journal sponsored by San Francisco State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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Vistas & Byways Spring 2023
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Vistas & Byways Fall 2022
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Three Poems on Work
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Kent State University May 4th Poetry Collection Archive
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Wingless Dreamer - My Cityline January 2022
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Beginning for Chris
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The Avocet Issues - 520 and 525
Winter Nature Poems
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Flying Squirrel Speaks of Winter
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Voice of the Redwoods
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Watching Winter Come from the Muir Beach Overlook
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Redwood Creek Speaks to Coho Salmon​
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The Muir Beach Beachcomber - February 2022 issue
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Awards
Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest 2023
Karen Marker was honored to win:
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On Passover/Easter Sunday - 2nd place prize in the Beginning/Ending Category
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Ode to the Blue City Chefchaouen, Morocco - 3rd place prize in the Places category
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Red Fox - honorable mention in the Nature Category
Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition
1st Prize for “Ruth in the Redwoods”
Honorable Mention for “A Season of Joy: Following the Moon at Muir Beach”
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September 24th, 2022
Ekphrastic poetry Friendswood, Texas Library Award
(reading via Zoom from Porto, Portugal)
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"Reflections" after a photograph "Behind the Gare Saint -Lazare - 1932" by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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​(won a jury prize)
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"Life Now" after Picasso’s "La Vie"
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"Mystery and Melancholy of a Street " After the painting with that title by Giorgio de Chirico
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