Karan
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Pre-order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now! Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
Epsom, England
Joined March 2009
My debut pamphlet is available now for pre-order from the amazing Salò Press — link is in my bio. I’m so excited to share these poems with you! #PublishedPoet #DebutPamphlet #IndependentPublisher #SaloPress #Folklore #Feminism #FuckThePatriarchy #PoetryCommunity #Poet #Poetry
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Recent publication in Propel magazine (edited by Helen Mort) after my 6th attempt 💖 with @beckymaywriter Dan Nixon, Abhijeet Singh and many other amazing poets @McrWritingSchl @propelmagazine
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We also want to shout out once more @avitusbcarle and @jeffyamaguchi, whose OKD-published pieces appear in Best Small Fictions 2024. (@KathrynKulpa is also in this one!)
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102 Flash Stories by 101 Authors
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Kathryn has been published in OKD twice! "After His Mother Throws Him Out, Nicky Spends the Night on the High School Roof": https://t.co/7vfp6STWd4 "Fur":
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You don’t have to wear the lion head any more, she imagined him saying. You can just be you. He’d never said this. There was no reason to think he would. Inside the mask her breath felt…
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.@KathrynKulpa's chapbook "A Map of Lost Places" is out this month: https://t.co/d3IbYYkCnG Kathryn also had a chapbook released in October called "For Every Tower, a Princess":
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.@courtludwick's book, "These Strange Bodies," came out in October: https://t.co/gVO1K0L91B Read Court's poem "Body Horror" in OKD:
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See the mother. See through her skin. See the skeleton. See inside the body. Look, there is another body, only smaller and made of disconnected parts. What constitutes a body? See, Mother has a pel…
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Darrin Doyle released a book in July called "Let Gravity Seize the Dead": https://t.co/QlHUXW4mMx Read Darrin's flash fiction "Outline" in OKD:
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“Please lie down,” the man said. He gestured at the pale sidewalk pocked with divots. “What for?” asked the boy. Could he trust this man? This stranger? “I can’t draw your outline unless you’re on …
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.@TaraCampbellCom's book, "City of Dancing Gargoyles," was nominated for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award: https://t.co/lKDzVdrLam Check out "City of Dancing Gargoyles": https://t.co/zfGaKgHTmM Read Tara's poem "Buzz Drunk" in OKD:
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These dizzy-dumb bees Thunkandthump at my window like teenage lovers all hapless and thirsting for bold yellow blossoms for balcony sirens for call and for beckon for opening just for them these lo…
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Shafguta Mulla won second place in the Tuscon Festival of Books Literary Awards: https://t.co/G3AOOvsrGL Read Shafguta's poem "When I Was a Bearskin Rug" in OKD:
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The only way you can strip a bear down to skin is with dart and gas- (light), or bullet- &nb…
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We're always excited to hear from the people whose work we've published! If you get our newsletter, these names might sound familiar — if you don't, you can slide in right now, we won't tell: https://t.co/7Ge1o7CUEW Here's what a few OKD alums have been up to:
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Thanks for the boost @okaydonkeymag ❤️
.@KaranJCChambers has a pamphlet out this month called "woman | folk" (preorder now!): https://t.co/g1CLJ0S6Ar Read Karan's poem "I have an existential crisis on realizing my reading list is finite" in OKD:
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My review of @jenlareine pamphlet 'Tiny Bright Thorns' from @nine_pens is up on @LondonGrip. Look out for her debut collection coming out this Spring, from The Poetry Business.
Poetry review – Tiny Bright Thorns: Marcelle Newbold admires the way Jen Feroze makes poetry from impressions of early motherhood: https://t.co/TxqqghIUkM
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Scenes from last night’s ’Poetry Scratch Night’ - a great opportunity to hear new work from students across the Poetry and Poetic Practice MA pathways!
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Very late to this week’s @TopTweetTuesday but wanted to highlight the amazing @theblackcatpp who publish amazing poetry!
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Five years ago today, @iambapoet was born. Just look how far we've come. Twenty waves and counting, 320 poets (so far), and almost 1,000 poems. Thank you to the poets who've appeared – and to those who've visited, read, listened and shared. This celebration is for us all.
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Poetry by @jobratten, @stephenson_pj, Ange Mlinko, @NathanielKing55, Beverley Bie Brahic, @aiscridon, @KaranJCChambers, Alice Miller, Richard Aronowitz and @Audrey_Molloy. Order here:
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Our February / March 2025 issue is now available for pre-order! Cover image by Stephen Whatcott. Pre-order here: https://t.co/CJ2V7rbXXL
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I’m thinking it might be time to leave the bad place. I love the #poetrycommunity on here but it just doesn’t seem right to stay anymore…
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This week’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge is. An imagistic poem on the theme of tradition or celebration with the juxtaposition of two unusual images. Focus on imagery, metaphor and wordplay more than story please. 100 words max!
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