kari edwards

{{short description|American poet}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|12|02}}

| birth_place = Illinois

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|12|02|1954|12|02}}

| death_place = San Francisco, California

| nationality = American

| education = Naropa Institute{{cite web|title=poet kari edwards|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/kari-edwards|website=poets.org|publisher=The Academy of American Poets|accessdate=17 August 2017}}

| field = Poetry, Sculpture, and Gender Activism

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| partner = Frances Blau

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kari edwards (December 2, 1954 – December 2, 2006)Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.

was a poet, artist and gender activist. Her name is written all lowercase. She won the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in literature (2002) and posthumously won a Lambda Literary Award.

She authored having been blue for charity (BlazeVox: 2006); obedience (Factory School: 2005); iduna (O Books:

2003); a day in the life of p (subpress collective: 2002); a diary of lies, Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books: 2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS (xPress(ed): 2002); and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press: 2000).

edwards's work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted leaf Press (2000), and Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text (Pyriform Press: 2002). Her works have also been exhibited throughout the U.S.

A posthumous book of edwards' poetry, succubus in my pocket, published in 2015 by EOAGH won a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Poetry.{{cite tweet |user=LambdaLiterary |number=739960323948589056 |date=2016-06-06 |title=Lammy for Trans poetry goes to succubus in my pocket by kari edwards #lammys }}