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

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....

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!