Kari Ann Martindale
Kari Martindale is an award-winning poet & spoken word artist who has read at Arts guilds across Maryland and performed at the White House. She is a teaching artist for Armed Services Arts Partnership. Now based in Alaska, Kari continues to sit on the Board of Maryland Writers’ Association and support EC Poetry & Prose.
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About Me
Kari Martindale is a poet and spoken word artist who has performed at the White House, opened for a national conference, and read at Arts guilds across Maryland. Now based in Alaska, Kari has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and received honorable mention in the 2024 annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition and various poetry contests. She continues to sit on the Board of Maryland Writers’ Association and is a member of 49 Writers and Alaska Writer’s Guild.
Kari was a writer-in-residence in Orquevaux, France in 2024 and has received grants that include the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. She has served on literary judging panels for Maryland State Arts Council, League of Utah Writers, and Poetry Out Loud, and as a volunteer judge for annual slam competitions in Baltimore. She is the former co-editor of the journal Pen in Hand and has served on selection and editing committees for journals and anthologies for several organizations.
Kari is a teaching artist for Armed Services Arts Partnership and veteran of the US Air Force, is a Features Writer for the Frederick News Post, and has published two children’s books.
Kari has been featured in ekphrastic poetry events at venues such as Baltimore Arts Guild, Delaplaine Arts Center, and Montpelier Arts Center; has been the feature poet at Arts organizations; and has read annually at Frederick’s Sky Stage Literature Night with the Frederick Chapter of Maryland Writers’ Association. Along with the poetry collective EC Poetry & Prose, which she helps manage, she has read on the main stage at Guinness Arts & Drafts and annually at the Write Women Book Fest.
Kari is multilingual and holds an M.A. in Linguistics. She has visited all 50 States and over 40 countries; she can (and does) talk to a lot of people about a lot of things.
