Karen Volkman

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Name Karen Volkman		Role Poet

Education Syracuse University, New College of Florida Awards National Poetry Series, James Laughlin Award Books Nomina, Crash's Law, Spar, A Form of Fire

Abby Smith recites Create Desire by Karen Volkman

Karen Volkman (born 1967 Miami, Florida) is an American poet.

She was educated at New College of Florida, Syracuse University, and the University of Houston.

Her poems have appeared in anthologies including The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize XXVII.

She has taught at several universities, including the University of Alabama, University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago, and Columbia College Chicago. She currently lives in Missoula, and teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Montana-Missoula.

Spar, winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize

Crash's Law, selected for the National Poetry Series by Heather McHugh.

Nomina. BOA Editions. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934414-06-4.

Spar. University of Iowa Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-87745-807-4.

Crash's Law. Norton. 1996. ISBN 978-0-393-31722-0.

Mutable Boundaries: on Prose Poetry. poets.org.

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