Dear Empire Available January 20!

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Praise for Dear Empire:

”Karapetkova writes with a contagious honesty. Her poems describe an American mirror we should not turn away from.”
—E. Ethelbert Miller, writer and literary activist, 2024 Grammy Nominee for Spoken Word and Poetry

“For the moments, months, and centuries when we don’t know our own faces, these poems might be a cure... Holly Karapetkova’s poems help us ask questions, they make us brave, they invite us to see.”
—Joseph Ross, author of Raising King and Crushed & Crowned

“Holly Karapetkova has written a tour de force: a tender but deeply candid volume which seeks to de-colonize not the country but the self.”
—David Keplinger, author of Ice: Poems

“As Karapetkova’s deft and incisive poems show, history is also the story of survival, sacrifice, and devotion; of how we are always running toward that light which can’t be bought or stolen.” 
—Luisa A. Igloria, author Caulbearer and Maps for Migrants and Ghosts

“These poems are lyrical prescriptions, the necessary conversation that some avoid over family holidays, their stunning truths—a smoking indictment of a culture and country long overdue for a reckoning.”
—Teri Ellen Cross Davis, author of a more perfect Union and Haint