HI! I’m Carolene.
I’m a Malayali-American poet from South Florida, and I currently serve as the Poetry Editor for Okay Donkey. Before you keep scrolling to see my latest updates, click on the link below to read my most recent poem in The Cincinnati Review!
Updates:
I’m now on Bluesky! Give me a follow at carolenekurien.bsky.social.
In literary news, my manuscript-in-progress received an Honorable Mention from the Miami Book Fair for its 2025 Emerging Writer Fellowship, and a poem from the manuscript was longlisted for Poetry Society UK’s 2024 National Poetry Competition. Check out my work in Southeast Review, The Florida Review, Sixth Finch, BOOTH, and more to get a sense of my budding book.
The issues of RHINO and Barrelhouse in which my work appears are also currently available to order; you can support by clicking on the hyperlinks and purchasing a copy!
In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of an insane cactus I saw on my most recent trip to Tempe, AZ. It kind of looks like the alien-monster from the movie Colossal, right?