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Name
  
Karen Volkman


Role
  
Poet

Karen Volkman httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

Education
  
Syracuse University, New College of Florida

Awards
  
National Poetry Series, James Laughlin Award

Books
  
Nomina, Crash's Law, Spar, A Form of Fire

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

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Life

Karen Volkman Karen Volkman Poetry Foundation

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.

Awards

  • Spar, winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize
  • Crash's Law, selected for the National Poetry Series by Heather McHugh.

    • Poetry books

  • 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. 

    • Essays

  • Mutable Boundaries: on Prose Poetry. poets.org. 

    • References

    Karen Volkman Wikipedia
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