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The 2015 Big Poetry Giveaway!

4/1/2015

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This year, the first book I plan on giving away is titled In the Permanent Collection by Stefanie Wortman. Winner of the 2013 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, Wortman's book explores the disorder found in life. Chad Davidson, in a back cover blurb, says, "These poems seem haunted by a mostly nameless melancholia. In the Permanent Collection, however, turns its grim geography of prisons, mortuaries, and tawdry suburbs into something close to classical elegy."  A great read!

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The second book is a copy of my own chapbook, Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt, winner of Main Street Rag's 2011 Chapbook contest. Published in 2012, my chapbook explores the world of rural Rust Belt Pennsylvania through narrative poems.  Poet Jeannine Hall Gailey says that this "chapbook captures an essential, flamboyant defiance against the landscape, women painting their nails bright colors even as their night shifts in factories cover them with cuts, bruises and grime."

Both winners will also receive an assortment of literary journals from my collection!

Please enter your name and contact information below. If you are new to my web page, please click my About link above. You have until April 30 to leave a comment. I will announce the winners sometime at the start of May.

Thanks for taking part in The 2015 Big Poetry Giveaway!


20 Comments
Sarah Gutowski link
4/1/2015 07:33:27 am

Thanks, Karen! Please enter me into your giveaway!

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Linda Hofk link
4/1/2015 09:54:15 am

I'd love to win! Please enter me :-)

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Allyson link
4/2/2015 01:23:35 am

Please enter me for the first book! (I won your chapbook last year. At least, I have a copy of it on my shelf, and I don't remember buying it, so I must have won it last year. And as a former rust-belt resident... I loved it!)

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Robin A. Sams link
4/3/2015 03:09:27 am

Hi! Please enter me in your giveaway.

If you like, you can check out my giveaway here:
https://robinasams.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/big-poetry-giveaway-2015/

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Dianne Alvine
4/4/2015 12:32:45 am

I would love to win your chapbook!!! It sounds very interesting.
Please enter me in this fabulous giveaway and thanks so much.
email: [email protected]

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C.A. LaRue link
4/4/2015 07:59:07 am

Throw my name in the hat!

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Linda Hofke link
4/4/2015 10:09:38 pm

I am from Pennsylvania so I would be more than happy to win a copy of Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt.

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Rodney Wilder link
4/4/2015 10:26:56 pm

Glad to see you participating in NaPo and the giveaway! Please add me to the drawing.

Rodney Wilder
roquedog504[at]gmail[dot]com

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Laurie Kolp
4/7/2015 02:56:07 am

Please include me in your drawing.
Laurie Kolp
laurie.kolp(at)gmail.com.

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Brian Wong link
4/7/2015 04:12:07 am

Hi Karen,

Thanks so much for participating in the giveaway! My name is Brian Wong and my e-mail is: [email protected]

Happy Poetry Month!

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Marianne Mersereau link
4/11/2015 03:00:39 am

Hi Karen,
I am crossing my fingers that I win a copy of your chapbook...congratulations on your award for that! I would also relish receiving the other books you mention. Please enter my name in the drawing, and thanks for participating in this giveaway. Marianne Mersereau - [email protected]

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Renee link
4/11/2015 03:56:11 am

i already own "wearing heels" (and loved it!) but wouldn't mind winning a second copy to give to a friend =)

Renee Emerson thisquiethour AT gmail DOT com

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Jo Lightfoot link
4/11/2015 02:26:43 pm

Please enter me in your generous drawing, and thanks!
Both books sound intriguing.

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Annie Peters
4/23/2015 02:31:50 am

Thank you for participating in this giveaway! I just love the idea behind it. And it’s such a great way to discover new poets.

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Dhyan link
4/23/2015 05:09:14 am

Since, Heels is something I really don't get I would really love knowing more about wearing them.

Thank you for joining BPG

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Michael Wells link
4/25/2015 10:21:59 am

please enter me in the poetry month drawing! Thanks - Michael Wells

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Lissa Clouser link
4/30/2015 04:54:40 am

These sound great! Please enter me into the giveaway. =)

[email protected]

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Serena Saint-Marceaux link
4/30/2015 11:06:32 am

What interesting-sounding books! Please include me in the giveaway.

[email protected]

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Shawnte link
4/30/2015 03:18:11 pm

Main Street Rag was always on my wish-list of presses to publish a chapbook. I was so sad that they discontinued their Chapbook series, but I've seen enough of them to know what a great job they do.
So congrats on winning one of their contests! I would love to win a copy of your collection.

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Ronald Lewis
5/1/2015 05:40:10 am

Sign me up! I'll cross my fingers. Ron Lewis, Vermont Poetry Newsletter

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