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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe

@kaylizpoet.bsky.social
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poet | nature lover author, Prayer Can Be Anything, This Late Afternoon karenelizabethsharpe.com

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SWWIM @swwim.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
From “Streetcorner Coda” by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #Poem #ItsLit #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #StreetcornerCoda #KarenElizabethSharpe #FridayPoem
Image of crosswalk light and pedestrian sign and the quote "to learn the value of my body, its intonations" by Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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...
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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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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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.
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. —Anne Carson
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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
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“An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.” ― Hafiz
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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thank you Halfway Down the Stairs! Almost missed this sweet pub feom September … halfwaydownthestairs.net/2024/09/01/i...
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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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Karen Elizabeth Sharpe @kaylizpoet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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