Citizen of the World, Poet, Writer of Other Things
Publications
Poetry
"The Snake in the Grass" published in The Wallace Stevens Journal (The Johns Hopkins Press) in 2024
"The South Shore Line" published in The Cimarron Review in 2023
"Elemental" published in the New Mexico Poetry Anthology, Issue #1, (Museum of New Mexico Press) 2023
"My Long Island" long-listed for the Peter Porter Prize 2022 (AU)
"Leaving Long Island," "Epistolary," "My Salamander," and "Obscurité" were published in The High Window (UK) Winter 2022 https://thehighwindowpress.com/category/poetry/
"Oslo," "Twilight Falls at the Bell's Sound,""Pisa," and "One Afternoon in Kyoto" were published in Fortunate Traveller, Dec. 2022
The featured American poet in the Fall 2022 Voice of America section of The High Window (UK) https://thehighwindowpress.com/category/the-voice-of-america/
"In the Saronic Gulf," published in The Classical Outlook (The American Classical League), Vol. 97, Issue #1, 2022
The chapbook "Trembling" won the Wil Mills Prize, judged by Annie Finch
" Open Window, Collioure (1905) " published in the March issue of The French Literary Review 2022
"Then," published in Highland Park Poetry - February 2022
"The Price of Love" published in Highland Park Poetry - January 2022 (nominated for Best of the Net)
"Aubade at Dusk" published in Highland Park Poetry - December 2021
"A Return to the Islands" published in the Fall issue of The Stockholm Review of Literature 2021 (long-listed for The Bridport Prize/UK, and nominated for a Pushcart) https://thestockholmreview.org/2021/10/03/a-return-to-the-islands-poetry-by-karen-petersen/
"Webster," published in Lighten Up Online (UK) Sept, 2021, issue 55 https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/isse-55-september-2021/2160-interval-three-the-animal-kingdom
"The Bay of Dreams" published in the About Place Journal October 2021 https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/when-we-are-lost-how-we-are-found/home/karen-petersen/
“Amor & Psyche” published in The Wallace Stevens Journal (The Johns Hopkins Press), vol. 45, issue 1, Spring 2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/784114/pdf#info_wrap
"A Vacation in Wales, After the War" published in Issue #2 of The Journal of Undiscovered Poets 2021
“Looking for the Perseid Meteor Shower” published in Peacock Journal 2021
“In the Style of the Japanese” published in Peacock Journal 2021
“For My Late Friend, Who I Knew For 52 Years” published in Peacock Journal 2021
“Falling” published in Peacock Journal 2021
"Beetlemania" published in Lighten Up Online (UK), December 2020 https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/issue-52-december-2020/1978-karen-petersen-beetlemania
"Three Poems from the Time of the Pandemic" published in Issue 97 of A New Ulster (UK) "Counting Down," "Unforeseen Consequences," and "Emergency." "Emergency" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_20new_20ulster_20issue_2097_20november_202020
“Ming December” published in Issue 19, Autumn 2020 of The High Window (UK)
https://thehighwindowpress.com/2020/09/05/the-high-window-issue-19-autumn-2020/#Karen%20Petersen
“Sudan” published in Issue 19, Autumn 2020 of The High Window (UK)
https://thehighwindowpress.com/2020/09/05/the-high-window-issue-19-autumn-2020/#Karen%20Petersen
"Facebook World," Issue 193, Orbis (UK) 2020
“Mathew Brady’s Greenhouse” published in Snakeskin, January 2020 (UK)
http://wwww.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/268greenhouse.html
“Kipling’s Remorse” published in LUPO - Lighten Up Online, December 2019 (UK) https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/2019/issue-48-december-2019/1792-competition-47-first-lines-2
"Totem," Idiom 23, Issue 28 2019 (Australia)
“Where, Indeed” published in Issue 39 of The Blue Nib, Dublin 2019 https://thebluenib.com/karen-petersen
“Ordinary Things” published in Issue 39 of The Blue Nib, Dublin 2019 and long-listed for the Able Muse Poetry Prize 2018 https://thebluenib.com/karen-petersen/
“Old Catullus in Chicago” published in LUPO - Lighten Up Online, December 2019 (UK) https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/issue-48-december-2019/1776-karen-petersen-old-catullus-in-chicago
“Routine” published in The Wild Word , Winter issue 2019 (Berlin) https://thewildword.com/poetry-the-end-karen-petersen/
“Reprieve” published in A New Ulster, Issue 81, June 2019 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2019) p.74. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_81
"Provence," published in A New Ulster, Issue 81, June 2019 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2019) p.75. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_81
"Corsican Melodies" published in A New Ulster, Issue 81, June 2019, p. 76. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_81
“Among the Bristlecones” published in The Curlew: Dreaming the Wild, June 2019, The Wildwood Press (UK)
“Bandelier” published in Trickster: A Literary Journal, Spring 2019
“New Mexico July” published in Trickster: A Literary Journal, Spring 2019
“The Long Night’s Moon Has Come” published in A New Ulster, Issue 78, March 2019, and short-listed (final 31 out of 1200 poems) in the America Media - Foley Poetry Contest 2019
“In Memory of Seamus Heaney” published in A New Ulster, Issue 78, March 2019
“A Wilderness Pantoum” published in A New Ulster, Issue 78, March 2019
“Inside the Caravan at the Mexican-American Border” published in A New Ulster, Issue 75, December 2018
“Tropicana” published in Issue 27, of Idiom 23, August 2018 (Australia)
”The Past is Not the Future” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, November 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/the-past-is-not-the-future
”A Tattered Beauty” published in The Bophorus Review of Books, July 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/a-tattered-beauty
”An Istanbul Pantoum” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, March 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/an-istanbul-pantoum
”Ten Years” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, July 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/ten-years
”By the Baptiste River, Alberta” published in The Wild Word, Winter issue 2017 (Berlin) https://thewildword.com/poetry-karen-petersen/
“Los Perdidos” Original English version published in The Saranac Review, #14, 2018
“In My Backyard” published in A New Ulster, Issue 72, September 2018
“On Alfred Russel Walace” published in A New Ulster, Issue 72, September 2018
“Catology” published in A New Ulster, Issue 72, September 2018
“Galway Viriditas” published in A New Ulster, Issue 69, June 2018
“For My Late Friend Who I Knew For 52 Years” published in A New Ulster, Issue 69, June 2018
“Taking Out the Garbage” published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Eternity” published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Noah’s Ark” published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Elegy for Karin” published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Black Gaia” published in Trickster: A Literary Journal, Spring 2019
“Excuses for Idleness #137: Counting Pennies published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Dragon Lily” published in The Manzano Mountain Review 2018 https://manzanomountainreview.com/karen-petersen
“Ferrying” published in The Manzano Mountain Review 2018 https://manzanomountainreview.com/karen-petersen
“The Witnessing of the Flowers” published in The Manzano Mountain Review, Issue No. 1, Winter 2017 https://www.manzanomountainreview.com/karen-petersen-poems
“Six Views of Northern New Mexico: The Transcendence of the Ordinary” published in The Manzano Mountain Review, Issue No. 1, Winter 2017 https://www.manzanomountainreview.com/karen-petersen-poems
“Lost and Found” published in Volume 41, Issue 1 of Pilgrimage, November 2017
“Rubber Love” published in The East Bay Review Fall 2017 https://theeastbayreview.com/poetry/
“The Garden King” published in Issue 180, Summer, of the Orbis International Literary Journal, 2017 (UK) http://www.orbisjournal.com/
“Bee on Peach Tree Blossom” published in Issue 180, Summer, of the Orbis International Literary Journal, 2017 (UK) http://www.orbisjournal.com/
“The Whooper Swans of Fermanagh” published in A New Ulster, Issue 58, July 2017
“Remembering Paddy’s Market, Glasgow published in A New Ulster, Issue 58, July 2017
“In Memory of W.B. Yeats” published in A New Ulster, Issue 54, March 2017
“America - in memory of Allen Ginsberg” published in HiConcept Magazine, 2017 http://hiconceptmag.com/generational-hitmen
“False Haiku: In Keeping With The Spirit Of Your Letters” published in The Asses of Parnassus, October 26, 2015 https://assesofparnassus.tumblr.com/
“Baghdad Memories” published in The 5-2: Poems on Crime http://www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/the-lineup-poems-on-crime-2/paperback/product-4801869.html
”Baghdad Memories/2” published in The 5-2: Poems on Crime http://www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/the-lineup-poems-on-crime-2/paperback/product-4801869.html
“Fulford Lake, Alberta” published in Antiphon, Issue 19 (UK) https://www.antiphon.org.uk/home/contents-of-issues
“Patagonia” published in The Saranac Review, Issue #2
“Glenna” published in The Malpais Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Autumn 2015
“Lester Be Good” published in The Malpais Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Autumn 2015
“Geisha” published in The Ekphrastic Review March 6, 2019 http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/geisha-by-karen-petersen
“So Let’s Go” published in The Wild Word (Berlin) February 2019 https://thewildword.com/poetry-karen-petersen-2/
“Bergistrall” published in The Wild Word (Berlin) February 2019 https://thewildword.com/poetry-karen-petersen-2
“The Walk” published in The Wild Word (Berlin) February 2019 https://thewildword.com/poetry-karen-petersen-2/
“Persona” published in The 5-2: Poems on Crime, Volume 6, July 17, 2017 https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/search/label/Volume%206
“The Last Battle” published in The 5-2: Poems on Crime, February 27, 2017 and nominated for Best of the Net 2017 https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/search?q=Karen+Petersen
”For C.N. (1955-1975)” The Miscellany News, published by Vassar College https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/vassar?a=d&d=miscellany19760213-01.2.40&srpos=5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-karen+petersen-------
Short Stories
“The Naivete of Assumption" published in the Fall issue of StylusLit 2021, Issue 10, https://styluslit.com/fiction/the-naivete-of-assumption/
“Black Magic,” published in The Heavy Feather Review July 2020 https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/07/20/petersen/
"How to Hurt Another,” published in issue 32 of The Stockholm Review of Literature 2020/21 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) https://thestockholmreview.org/2020/07/12/how-to-hurt-another-by-karen-petersen/
"The Umbrella Man," Issue #193, Orbis (UK) 2020
“An Indonesian Story” published in The Stockholm Review of Literature, Jan 2020 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
https://thestockholmreview.org/2020/01/05/non-fiction-by-karen-petersen/
“Careless Love” published in Issue 28 of Idiom 23, December 2019 (Australia)
“Trust” - published in The Stockholm Review of Literature (nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2020) https://thestockholmreview.org/the-soderberg-section/fiction-by-karen-petersen/
“A Seal Upon Thine Heart” published in A New Ulster, Issue 84, September 2019 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) p.90-100. https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_84
“Claus” published in A New Ulster, Issue 81, June 2019 https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/a_new_ulster_81
"The Perfect Gentleman” pub in Aurora: EKU Literary Arts magazine, Spring 2019 https://aurora.eku.edu/sites/aurora.eku.edu/files/files/2019_Spring/Fiction/KarenPetersen_ThePerfectGentleman_Fiction_revised.pdf
“Diary of the Floating World” published in A New Ulster, Issue 78, March 2019
“A Special Realm” published in Peacock Journal, January 2019 http://peacockjournal.com/karen-petersen-a-special-realm/
“Knock, Knock” published in A New Ulster, Issue 69, June 2018
“Times Square” published in A New Ulster, Issue 67, April 2018
“Nana in a Can" published in A New Ulster, Issue 90, April 2020
“Window” a final shortlist of three in the Ungagged Winter Short Story Radio Competition 2017-2018 (UK), also published in A New Ulster, Issue 90, April 2020
”Alain” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, September 2019 https://bosphorusreview.com/alain
”A Letter from Sudan” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, July 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/a-letter-from-sudan
”A Narrow Line” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, March 2019 https://bosphorusreview.com/a-narrow-line
”Delta Days, Delta Nights” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, November 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/delta-days-delta-nights
"The Aching Truth," published in A New Ulster, September 29, 2018 https://issuu.com/amosgreig/docs/anu72 -short-listed for the Able Muse fiction prize
”In Search of the Almond Squares”published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, July 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/in-search-of-the-almond-squares-a-proustian-adventure
”The Kindness of Strangers” published in The Bosphorus Review of Books, May 2018 https://bosphorusreview.com/the-kindness-of-strangers
Flash and Hybrids
“The Wyoming Project: The Kindness of Some Strangers, Grey Arizona, Black and White Makes Gray, and Hanging in the Balance” to be published by The Cantabrigian Magazine 2022
"Escaping Death One Sleepy Summer Afternoon"- 42 words published in 42 Stories Anthology, to be published in 2020
"Bewildered Reflections Upon An Aching Life"-42 words published in 42 Stories Anthology, to be published in 2020
“The Gaucho” (hybrid/haibun) published in KYSO Flash Literary Journal, Issue 11 http://www.kysoflash.com/Issue11/PetersenGaucho.aspx
“An Orkney Weekend” micro-fiction published in KYSO Flash Literary Journal, Issue 11 http://www.kysoflash.com/Issue11/PetersenOrkney.aspx
“Flesh Tomb” published in Mercurial Stories (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) https://mercurialstories.com/2018/11/02/volume-1-issue-32/14/
“Dating at 50" published in Mercurial Stories https://mercurialstories.com/2018/12/30/volume-1-issue-38-resolutions/5/
"Consolation” published in Mercurial Stories https://mercurialstories.com/2018/08/18/week-22-stories-yellow/
Anthologies
"Elemental" to be published in the New Mexico Poetry Anthology, Issue #1, (Museum of New Mexico Press) 2022
“The Gaucho” (hybrid), published in EARTH HYMN: KYSO Flash Anthology, edited by Clare MacQueen, 2019
“Among the Bristlecones” and “Taking Out the Garbage” published in telepoem booth: santa fe collected calls, edited by Elizabeth Hellstern, Skyheart Studio Editions, 2019
“Parkinson’s Persona” published in Missing Persons: reflections on dementia, edited by Deborah Coy, Beatlick Press 2019
“August” published in End of Summer: poems, Alexandria Quarterly Press, 2018
“Baby,” “In the Style of the Japanese,” and “Kushka” published in Where Are You From? A Bilingual Anthology in English and Persian, edited by Soodabeh Saeidinia 2017 https://www.abebooks.com/9781545136874/Where-Bilingual-Anthology-English-Persian-1545136874/plp
“Mysterious Science” published in di-vêrsé-city Anthology 2017: Austin International Poetry Festival and read at the annual Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle January 2016
“Truchas, New Mexico” published in Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems, edited by David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman, Dos Gatos Press, 2017
“Lost in Translation” published in WILDERNESS: land untrammeled, edited by Dale Harris, Collective Perception, 2017
The 5-2, Volume 6, (2016-2017) Edited by Gerald So (Poetic Justice Press) https://www.amazon.com/Five-Two-Vol-6-Gerald-So-ebook/dp/B07GZVDTM5
The Line Up: Poems on Crime, Issue 2, Edited by Gerald So with Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone, (Poetic Justice Press) 2009 https://www.amazon.com/Lineup-Poems-Crime-2-ebook/dp/B00AKZNVQA/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1O9VFR7HF63S6&keywords=the+line+up%3A+poems+on+crime&qid=1648683053&sprefix=the+line+up+poems+on+crime%2Caps%2C252&sr=8-4
Audio/Video
Poetry with Karen Petersen presented by the Santa Fe Public Library, October 14th, 2020 (Zoom)
Teatro Paraguas Presents the Poetry and Short Stories of Karen Petersen, Sunday October 11th, 2020 (Zoom)
Light Verse in Dark Times: May 24 2020, Light Poetry Magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpwJXPIGw0I
“Among the Bristlecones,” “Noah’s Ark,”and “Taking Out the Garbage” published in the Chavez Center, Santa Fe Telepoem Booth Art Installation 2019
“Los Perdidos” English and Spanish version, translated by Flor de Maria Oliva, published in the NMHU Telepoem Booth Art Installation in Las Vegas, New Mexico 2019
"Fulford Lake, Alberta" Issue 19, Antiphon (UK) https://soundcloud.com/antiphon-poetry/fulford-lake-alberta-by-karen?in=antiphon-poetry/sets/antiphon-issue-19
"Lost and Found," Pilgrimage Magazine, Renewal issue (Vol 41, Issue 1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRG6sVVcWnc
"Persona," The Five-Two: Poems on Crime, July 17, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxKbZiHNVg&feature=emb_logo
"The Last Battle" The Five-Two: Poems on Crime, Feb 27, 2017 (nominated for Best of the Net 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpO8UMvmNws&feature=emb_logo
"Lester Be Good," Reading at Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, The Santa Fe Poetry Trails NMSPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsG4P0b3E98
Ephemera
"America” published in the All-Star Poets Fundraiser pamphlet, October 21, 2018, SFDP Fundraiser for Women Candidates held at the Center for Progress and Justice, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Six Views of Northern New Mexico: The Transcendence of the Ordinary - Two Untitled Haiku” published in A Poets Picnic: a Celebration of Nature, Calligraphy, Music & Poetry, on behalf of a festival held at The Open Space Visitor Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2017
Books
2022 Winner of the Wil Mills chapbook award for "Trembling," judged by Annie Finch (Kelsay Books 2023)
Womponomon: The Place of Shells Chapbook (Finishing Line Press 2024)
In Progress, or Finished and Looking for a Publisher:
Astrologers, Monks, and Warlords: My Search for the Opium King (non-fiction)
Debris Field (fiction)
Some Men: Collected Short Stories
New York Stories
Not Your Mother’s Safari: Stories from Africa
Twelve Cities, and Other Places: Poetry book
The Habits of a Landscape: Poetry book
Beasts: Poetry book
Small Sutras: Poetry book
Saskatchewan: Poetry chapbook
Influences: The 'Irish' Poems Chapbook
CAUTION: Dust Storms May Exist - Poems from New Mexico Chapbook
Beetlemania: Chapbook
Warriors: Micro-Chapbook
Good Luck With Your Future Life: Micro-Chapbook