Holly Karapetkova is Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington, Virginia, and recipient of a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her work with young poets. Her most recent book of poetry is Dear Empire (Gunpowder Press), winner of the 2025 William Meredith Prize and the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.
2010 Washington Writers Publishing House Poetry Winner
WWPH Publications by Holly Karapetkova
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Words We Might One Day Say
Book of poems by Holly Karapetkova (2010). Learn more…
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Words We Might One Day Say
Published October 2010
The poems in this volume explore the experiences of love and loss; of motherhood and childhood; and of living between the two cultures of America and Bulgaria. Learn more…