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Dear Empire on Verse Daily

March 11, 2025

Holly Karapetkova

Holly Karapetkova‘s DEAR EMPIRE winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, is available now. Featured on Verse Daily!

“Karapetkova writes with a contagious honesty. Her poems describe an American mirror we should not turn away from.” 

—E. Ethelbert Miller, writer and Grammy Nominee for Spoken
Word and Poetry

Filed Under: Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

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