Karen McPherson
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Karen McPherson is a poet, literary translator, former editor in the Airlie Press collective, and Professor Emerita of French and francophone literature at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Skein of Light, a volume of poems published by Airlie Press in 2014. Her poems and translations have appeared in journals and anthologies including Calyx, Fireweed, Cider Press Review, Passager, Paper Nautilus, Potomac Review, Zoland Poetry, Saranac Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chicago Quarterly Review, Potomac Review, Midwest Quarterly, december, The Dodge, Roanoke Review, Ocotillo Review, The Women's Review of Books, the Lane Literary Guild anthology Dona Nobis Pacem, and the anthology Bigger Than They Appear. Her chapbook Sketching Elise came out in 2012 from Finishing Line Press. In fall 2013, Guernica Editions in Toronto published her translation into English of the first two volumes of Quebec poet and essayist Louise Warren’s Archives trilogy: Delft Blue & Objects of the World. In fall 2023, Ekstasis Editions in Victoria, B.C. published Up Close, her translation into English of Quebec poet Louise Dupré's volume of poetry Tout près.
drawing by Nadine Fiedler, circa 1977
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McPherson’s first full-length volume of poems, Skein of Light, was published by Airlie Press on October 1, 2014.
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