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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · 17d

Huge Thanks to Cultural Daily's editor Bunkong Tuon for publishing a review of my new chapbook, Balance, and deep gratitude to poet Nancy Murphy for writing a poignant review.
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Review: Balance by Laurie Kuntz - Cultural Daily

"Kuntz shows us the value of facing life courageously calling out what we all know to be true." Nancy Murphy reviews Balance, the new chapbook by Laurie Kuntz.

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · 26d

So very honored to be published in MacQueen's Quinterly with so many other fine poets. Gratitude to Clare MacQueen, a keen editor.
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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Laurie Kuntz: In the Absence of Healing

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 30

My new poetry book, Balance, is featured on Autumn Sky Saturday book feature today: Buy link: moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/kunt...?

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 30

Huge amounts of gratitude to Barbara Leonhard for publishing my poem "Options" in MasticordesUSA. Take a look, masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/o...

“Options” by Laurie Kuntz

Photo by JuneKawaiiart on Pexels.com In the beginning,we had time to tallywho spited, who hurt,who forgave first. We could nurse our angerfor weeks turning it into a game,until one of us cried &#82…

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 18

My poem, Kwan Yin, is published today by Braided Way: Faces and Voices of Spiritual Practice. My deep gratitude to Laura Grace Weldon for her keen eye and sense of spirituality.
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Kwan Yin - Braided Way Magazine

Where is the mercy in a statue?

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 18

I am happy to be amongst other fine haikuists in this issue of Sense and Sensibility. Gratitude for the fine curation by editor in chief Patricia Carragon. sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/s...

Sense & Sensibility ~ September 2025

Welcome to Sense & Sensibility ~ September 2025 Happy Haiku, dear poets and lovers of Haiku. Thank you to the following poets in this beautiful issue: Brasswax, Andrew Kaufman, Ken Gosse, Dhru,…

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 5

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟱: “𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘇 (𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 Arts Center, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱). “Balance” is a book about living, truly living, despite the threat of mortality, war, and natural disasters. Link to purchase: moonstone-arts-center.square.site/.../2EQX2U7A...

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Aug 2

My 7th book of poetry, Balance, is now available from Moonstone Arts Center. Please consider buying it. Buying this book puts my name on your shelf but also supports the arts and artists in these unbalanced times. To order go to Moonstone Arts Center site: moonstone-arts-center.square.site#bhvViG

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Reading of my poem on Viewless Wings:
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Five Poets Recite (David Berner, Desma Sheerer, Nicole Dalcourt, River Ripa, Laurie Kuntz)

YouTube video by James Morehead

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jul 28

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out my work on Silver Birch Series: silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/t...

The Equation by Laurie Kuntz (MY FAVORITE THINGS Series)

The Equation by Laurie Kuntz On my 70th birthday, I told my son to do the math: Flowers + amber bracelets + milkshakes + cats. He added it up, gifting me the purring of sweet and sparkly. On the sp…

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Apr 14

Please check out. my new work on Sheila Na Gig sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi...

Laurie Kuntz

Laurie Kuntz is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time Best of the Net Nominee. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. She published six books of poetry. Her latest That Infinite Roar, publish…

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jan 20

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Love, Light, and Poetry. We will get through this day and the ones to come.

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jan 19

In order to tank the inauguration TV ratings (something he values a lot) keep the TV on but just have it any channel that IS NOT broadcasting the inauguration. Have many TVs on but not on the inauguration…it will tank the inauguration ratings .

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Jan 12

Gratitude to Lyndsey Ellis, Editor & Curator of Scarlet: A Literary Journal, which gives strong preference to writing that questions norms and provokes discourse for publishing six of my poems:

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"By Invitation Only", "Butterflies and Sirens", "The Fall", "Invisible", "After the Assault" and "Last Will" - Jaded Ibis Press

By Invitation Only Just when you think you can hear beyondthe mowers and raw hum of trafficto the sounding in high tree tops of the hermit thrush,when you think the bougainvillea’s shades have deepene...

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Dec 10

Gratitude to Barbara Harris Leonhard who curates a new blog/journal Feed the Holy, and today she has published my poem "Partaking"
Partaking By Laurie Kuntz
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FEED THE HOLY

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Dec 10

I have two poems in the Moria magazine, a beautiful journal out of Los Angeles. Thanks to the poetry editor, Lulu Fierro, for her keen curation.
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“Polyglot” by Laurie Kuntz — MORIA

Polyglot Under your tongue, slides five new languages, while I still perfect the words of this poem. I am fluent in the latest gossip the fair-weather neighbor relished me with, I can speak all t...

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thrilled to be a Finalist in Concrete Wolf's Louis Poetry Award 2024. Kudos to the winner and finalists for this year's award!

Shelter in Place by Laurie Kuntz

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@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thanks for the reminder. I submitted work today

@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Nov 14

thanks for the reminder: submitted today.

@poetlaurie @poetlaurie.bsky.social · Nov 14

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