KAREN MCPHERSON, POET & TRANSLATOR
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Selected Poems

The Dodge October 8, 2022
     
I Shelter the Predator and Simultaneous Translation at the Peace
             Accords
Reservoir Road Literary Review #7 winter 2022:
     Thrombosis

"Long for this world" in Poetry Pages curated by Katha
     Pollitt in The Women's Review of Books fall 2021
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wrb_38.6_poetry_spread.pdf ​

Salamander #53 winter 2022:
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Sweet Collusion
Innisfree Poetry Journal 31 fall 2020:
   
Awake
Turtle Island Quarterly 20 winter/spring 2021:
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Fault Lines
Picture
Bilingual publication in Mïtra: Revue d'art et de
       littérature
, ​vol. 3, automne 2019, pp. 117-131
       Four poems translated into French by Louise Dupré: 

       Fontanel [Fontanelle] 
       Cryosphere [Cryosphère] 
       How to Get There from Here [Comment arriver là] 
       Gatherings [F
êtes]

        Sample poems from Sketching Elise: 
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               Untold
                Midwife
       Sample poems from Skein of Light:
               Royal Quiet Deluxe
               Beneath
               A Map of Maps
Claw & Blossom June 2019
      Silk        

Peacock Journal November 2017
     FIVE POEMS:
         Return to Summer Lake
         Gravity of Ground
         Visiting the Stones
         Because Sad
         Summer Vagaries (Manhattan       
                 1968)

Umbrella, spring 2009
       "Foregone"    

Beloit Poetry Journal, spring 2014
     "What It Takes"
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The Centrifugal Eye, February 2009 (pages 17-18)
     "Three Photos: Four Generations" and "Echo Chamber"
       
First Place winner of Poet's Choice in Oregon Poetry Association's spring 2015 contest:
                        Provenance
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