Bio for 2018
Karen George, a native Kentuckian, has published a full-length poetry collection, Swim Your Way Back, and a second forthcoming, A Map and One Year, and five chapbooks, most recently an ekphrastic collaborative chapbook, Frame and Mount the Sky. She reviews poetry at Poetry Matters blog: http://readwritepoetry.blogspot.com/, and is co-founder and fiction editor of the online journal, Waypoints: http://www.waypointsmag.com/. She enjoys taking photographs and visiting museums, cemeteries, gardens and parks, the woods, mountains, and historic river towns—particularly any place near a body of water.
Reason for signing up:
I signed up because this will be my sixth year of writing a poem-a-day with other LEXPOMO poets in June, and I've always found it inspiring. Also, for me, having a daily deadline is a good thing. I work well under pressure.
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe's "Evening Star No. V," 1917
- June 10, 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe's From the Plains I, 1919
- June 11, 2018 To wrestle something out for myself
- June 13, 2018 I Want So Terribly To Feel
- June 14, 2018 I have wanted to explain to you
- June 15, 2018 Emily Carr's "Laughing Forest," 1939
- June 16, 2018 I Want To Have My Share
- June 17, 2018 Listen to me
- June 18, 2018 There is so little known about
- June 19, 2018 When one is listening intensely
- June 23, 2018 To Remain Intact (a Li-Young Lee cento)
- June 25, 2018 Kindness After So Much Noise (cento)
- June 26, 2018 Georgia O'Keeffe's "The Old Maple, Lake George," 1926
Badges
Participated in the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2016 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Sustained Lexington Poetry Month
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