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Karen Carter’s Deep Dive reveals healing and hopeA memoir in poetry, these poems travel from the safe space of therapy in Oklahoma, where the poet plunges into an ocean of grief and hits rock bottom.
She develops courage during decades of adulthood, exploring a path through redemptive suffering. In the sanctuary of her front porch in rural North Carolina and in the remote every dayness of a schoolteacher during COVID, she sits with sorrow. She takes a deep dive into the ordinary, natural world and experiences the inner and outer world joined together without shame. Finally, at the Outer Banks, North Carolina, the victim tosses the loss and the pain of violence done to her body and mind into the sea. Finding spiritual power to rise from trauma’s depth, the poet cherishes new life in the present and hope in all eternity. 
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RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Feed the Holy Literary Magazine
Summer 2027
Editor Barbara Harris Leonhard says three of Karen Carter’s “beautiful poems” published in Deep Dive (Querencia Press 2024) will be reprinted in her online literary e-zine in the summer of 2027:
“Kick the Can” June 12, 2027
“Veins” on July 14, 2027
“Lullaby” August 13, 2027
Summer 2027
Editor Barbara Harris Leonhard says three of Karen Carter’s “beautiful poems” published in Deep Dive (Querencia Press 2024) will be reprinted in her online literary e-zine in the summer of 2027:
“Kick the Can” June 12, 2027
“Veins” on July 14, 2027
“Lullaby” August 13, 2027
New Poems
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine
August 2026
“Treating Tiny Crumbs”
Editor Arvilla Fee says of Karen’s poem, “Treating Tiny Crumbs,” “what a beautiful, poignant poem with so much heart”. “Treating Tiny Crumbs” is published in Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine on August 15, 2026.
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine
August 2026
“Treating Tiny Crumbs”
Editor Arvilla Fee says of Karen’s poem, “Treating Tiny Crumbs,” “what a beautiful, poignant poem with so much heart”. “Treating Tiny Crumbs” is published in Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine on August 15, 2026.
The Write Launch
May 2026
“Neglect for the Birds”
“Birds on a Wire”
“Curtain Call”
More than a dozen of Karen’s poems published in Deep Dive first appeared in The Write Launch, an online journal valuing humanity, creativity, and the imagination.
Now three new poems of Karen’s, “Neglect for the Birds,” “Birds on a Wire,” and “Curtain Call,” are published in the May 2026 publication of The Write Launch.
Founder and editor Sandra Fluck of this literary journal says, “Karen always has beautiful, thoughtful poetry inside ready to be seen and read.”
May 2026
“Neglect for the Birds”
“Birds on a Wire”
“Curtain Call”
More than a dozen of Karen’s poems published in Deep Dive first appeared in The Write Launch, an online journal valuing humanity, creativity, and the imagination.
Now three new poems of Karen’s, “Neglect for the Birds,” “Birds on a Wire,” and “Curtain Call,” are published in the May 2026 publication of The Write Launch.
Founder and editor Sandra Fluck of this literary journal says, “Karen always has beautiful, thoughtful poetry inside ready to be seen and read.”
“Ushering in the New Year”
January 2026
Editor MK Keffer says about Karen’s poem, “Ushering in the New Year”
“This refreshing poem finds the flash of dolphins in the ocean as inspiration to graciously accept the beauty of a new year.” “Ushering in the New Year” was published January 1, 2026, in the Winter Holiday Reflection issue of the online literary journal, The Bluebird Word.
January 2026
Editor MK Keffer says about Karen’s poem, “Ushering in the New Year”
“This refreshing poem finds the flash of dolphins in the ocean as inspiration to graciously accept the beauty of a new year.” “Ushering in the New Year” was published January 1, 2026, in the Winter Holiday Reflection issue of the online literary journal, The Bluebird Word.