KAREN PETERSEN has published poetry, short stories, and flash both nationally and internationally. Her poems have been translated into Persian and Spanish, and she has been nominated for numerous prizes, including ten Pushcarts, and long-listed for the UK’s international Bridport Prize, Forward Prize, and Australia’s Peter Porter Prize. In 2023, her chapbook Trembling, published by Kelsay Books, won the Wil Mills Award, judged by Annie Finch, and her poem “The Price of Love” was nominated for Best of the Net. Her most recent chapbook, Wamponomon: The Place of Shells was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024, and this current release includes a letter from the President of the United States. More information can be found at: https://karenpetersenwriter.com
PRAISE:
Karen Petersen‘s poetic mastery elicits an Irish Arcadia underscored by crushing hailstorms and slushy bogs, pierced by a consistently startling rebirth into sunrise. Her clear-eyed expression is fresh and sensate, and the Influences poems—of delight, alarm, and astonishment—gift us the Emerald Isle’s irrepressibly joyful spirit and soul.
–Keith H. Emmons: author of A Thousand Days of Tantra, and Who Built the Train Wreck?
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