MARLEY

KAREN CARTER

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Karen Carter is a poet, writer, and educator.

​With a B.A., M.Div., and PhD, she has taught at all levels of learning and presently teaches high school English and Creative Writing.

Recently, her poems have been published in Plants & Poetry Journal, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Bluebird Word, The Write Launch, and Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine.

Many poems in her debut collection, Deep Dive (Querencia Press, 2024), a memoir in poetry about healing from trauma, have appeared previously in literary journals and anthologies.

​She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

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Winston-Salem Writers
Writers.com
Poets & Writers, Inc.
Volunteer, The Shepherd’s Center, 1700 Ebert St., Winston-Salem, NC
North Carolina Association of Educators

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"From the therapy chairs of Oklahoma to the solitude of her front porch in rural North  
 Carolina; from the classroom during COVID to the beaches of the Outer Banks, Karen  
 Carter asks us to dive deep into the natural world and dive even deeper into our
 suffering, courage, and healing. 

 She interrogates a dragonfly: “My dear dragonfly, what do your eyes see?” She faces  
 her nightmares and flashbacks of the violence done to her body and mind. With great
 courage, she chooses to dig her feet into the sand and, like Jesus, drive the demonic
 pigs into the sea. Finally, she releases her “sobs without shame to the Begotten, not
 Made, while the waves roll on into eternity.”

 If your heart wants a companion as it dives deep into the grief and ashes of life, where at
 the bottom of the dive there is healing and hope and newness of life to be found, then
 this book will become your treasured friend, a candle when the night wind blows."
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 Rev. Curtis M. Abbott, D.Min, LPC, LMFT.
 Co-Founder of The Center for Psychotherapy Education and Spiritual Growth, Inc.
 Oklahoma City