Karen Volkman's books of poetry are Crash’s Law, a National Poetry Series selection, and Spar, which received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals - with recent work appearing or soon to materialize in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, American Letters & Commentary, and The Paris Review - and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and the forthcoming Great American Prose Poems. Recipient of awards and fellowships from the NEA, the Poetry Society of America, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, she is currently the Springer Poet-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.
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