Additionally, I've redesigned my website! Learn a lot more about me and take a look at karenquickley.net/about

This site is made possible by BookBub! I switched from the Authors Guild to BookBub because it is so much less expensive. Plus, better design options from my perspective.

#BookBub

Although it is best to support your indie bookstores, I truly recommend self-publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing. This week I changed my A+ marketing content as follows. This is just one feature on the KDP platform for authors. #KDP #karenquickley #thebeautifulthing #poetry #womensliterature

So I turned 50 last month, and now I've got another milestone: got my second Amazon review of my first chapbook "The Beautiful Thing." Yes, it was my sister who wrote it, but it's still an honest and authentic review! #KDP #thebeautifulthing #karenquickley #ohiopoet #ekphrasticpoetry #womenpoets

Dear friends and creative folk, we are open for submissions for our summer issue tomorrow, June 1. Please send your work at www.newfeathersanthology.com

Beneath the gleaming name of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” lies a ruthless blueprint for starving, separating and silencing the most vulnerable children.

The Ohio Division of Wildlife invites you to share your admiration and passion for wildlife by entering their Poets for Wildlife Contest!

Entrants must be a current Ohio resident or reside in Ohio for school and be 18 years or older.

Details: ow.ly/6ofN50W4aGq

I'm turning 50 this week, and my poetry chapbook is still free right now through Kindle. I invite you to enjoy this collection of imaginative ekphrastic poetry on a theme of romantic love--The Beautiful Thing. It will be a wonderful gift to share it with you.]

www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Th...

Excerpt from a piece in my poetry chapbook (The Beautiful Thing) and the artwork by Phoebe Wahl that inspired it. My book is free through Kindle right now: karenquickley.net/books/the-be...

#karenquickley #ekphrasticpoetry #lovepoetry #thebeautifulthing #freekindlebook #phoebewahl #bookbub

Tonight I'm sharing my favorite of my three poems that New English Review published last year. (You will see that I'm still figuring out the world of Bluesky and tech in general.) To read the others, just go to www.newenglishreview.org/articles/goi....

Want to read the poem that put me back on the literary map, so to speak? Thanks to The Looking Glass Review for featuring it as part of their interview of me not too long ago...

www.thelookingglassreview.com/karen-quickl...

I can't afford a poetry website with The Authors Guild anymore, and I'm really pleased to have discovered BookBub's website service. Since my only book is just an ebook for now, it's very fitting to have switched. Very happy with my new website. Curious cats? Here you go:

karenquickley.net

Yes--Quickley is my literary pseudonym. I was born a Schnurstein and continue to bear this tricky and unusual (even in Germany) surname. The meaning of Schnurstein is "string stone" (long story). If you'd like to know more about me and my poetry, go here:

karenquickley.net

Enjoying this opportunity to share! Going in no particular order, here is my Dawn Review interview regarding my poem they nominated for Best of the Net:

www.thedawnreview.com/post/issue-2...

And so it begins...This poem came out in Wyldcraft Literary Magazine late last year. Hope you can read this tiny font in the pic. It's a very juicy magazine--highly recommend it. Here it is:

For my second post here, I'm going to fire up some self-promotion. Many of my publications seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle in my Facebook and LinkedIn networks, and my new website just focuses on my chapbook. But here's the poem teased on my cover here, many thanks to t'ART Magazine!

Greetings, fellow earthlings! Find me here please...Presently looking for familiar faces...Please weigh in on my chapbook cover. I was really brave (or boorish) and asked one of the artists to do my cover for me--haven't heard back yet. Here it is...too pale, right? a.co/d/hoStckx