Visit some of the art, fashion, and dramas that inspired Karen’s poems, from Bruegel and Dior’s “Bar” to Endeavour and The Hour.
Category: Fabulosa
Writing Exercises
Creative prompts for workshops or individuals, with resources from the Academy of American Poets.
Why My Poems Arrive Wearing Black Gloves
like twin gauntlets set on the margin: enter the female assassin. The screwball debutante. Noir & glitz mixed in one bad throwback…
The Bar Suit
After the war, the wasp-waist returns: silk civility a flag for romance, buttoned-up jacket over pleated wool. Dior’s vision of flower-like women is made an armor of glamour.
Watching Morse
on Endeavour
nowhere is safe in 1960’s Oxford. Not the boat house or boarding school, cheap flat, church floor, doesn’t matter…
The Roses
Daily the beatitudes. Phosphorus struck in midnight air. Flame cupped against rain.
Lemons in August
Mineral green lisbons poised in the desert. I’m watching bees drunk with sun. A blistered leaf.
To Hieronymus Bosch
Before a yolk-yellow break in the clouds, Christ looks down on pitchforks gathered in scenes folkloric…
Lady with Glove
Color of ginkgo, maybe
citron: puffed sleeves
citron: puffed sleeves
I notice first. Then her sideways
acid look. An ungloved hand…
Media | Fabulosa
Interviews, podcasts, and mentions of Karen’s second poetry collection, Fabulosa.