Published Poetry:
My poem “Ode to Edges” won Inscape
Journal's "Ode" poetry contest: Writing Contests – Inscape
My poem “Headlong” was included in the latest issue of Thimble Literary Magazine. Headlong
My prose poem “Ode to Knots,” inspired by Arthur Briscoe's 1926 "Ten Knots" appeared in The Ekphrastic Review. Ode to Knots, by Karen George - The Ekphrastic Review
I had poems published in Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Pink Panther Magazine—Women's Art and Writing, and Permafrost, both print magazines, three found/erasure poems created from pages of "The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort (1919) in Heron Tree, and three collage/erasure poems in the latest issue of The Indianapolis Review
I had six prose poems published in The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry, a poem in the “All About My Mother” series at Silver Birch Press, and a poem in Sheila-Na-Gig.
I had poems published in JMWW, Rogue Agent, NonBinary Review, Lily Poetry Review, The Power of the Feminine "I" Anthology, and Ekphrastic Review’s The Memory Palace, an ekphrastic anthology.
A poem was published in Willawaw Journal.
A poem was published in Mayday Magazine.
My poem “Playing for the Lost,” inspired by Kees Van Dengen’s 1920 painting The Violinist, was published in Volume 7.2, Winter 2022 issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online.
My poem inspired by Frida Kahlo’s 1949 painting titled “The Love Embrace of the Universe” was published in the journal Persimmon Tree.
My poem inspired by Remedios Varo’s 1948 painting “The Flautist” was published in The Ekphrastic Review.
Heron Tree published “Dear Mother, last night I dreamt,” my found poem created from “The Pomegranate Seeds” in Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853).
My poem, “Calving at Glacier Bay,” appeared in the ONE GOOD MEMORY Series of Silver Birch Press. It was originally published in my chapbook, Inner Passage (Red Bird Chapbooks) and my collection Swim Your Way Back (Dos Madres Press).
My poem inspired by Canadian artist Emily Carr’s 1930 painting “Guyasdom’s D’Sonoqua” was published in The Ekphrastic Review December 5, 2022.
My found poem “Totem,” created from Canadian artist Emily Carr’s painting titles, was published in Issue 22 of Panoply.
My poem “Shadow Travel” was included in The Ekphrastic Review challenge to write about Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting “The Persistence of Memory,” 1931.
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poems inspired by Andrea Kowch paintings at Cultural
Daily. To see Andrea Kowch art, visit: Andrea Kowch Studio.
An erasure poem of a page in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Circe’s Palace,” part of his collection “Tanglewood Tales” at Heron Tree.
2 poems at Verse-Virtual.
A found poem created from
“The Dragon’s Teeth,” a story in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales appeared in Heron Tree.
Ekphrastic poems published in:
MacQueen’s
Quinterly March 2022
“March 16, 2021” appeared in Thimble Literary Magazine
“When You Need a Blessing” & “At my uncle’s farm” appeared in Verse-Virtual
“The Visible Dark” & “In the blue bleed of night” appeared in the Summer/Fall 2021 Issue of I-70 Review
Changing Pastures, Rosa Bonheur, 1863
Cool early summer afternoon on the
channel, brisk wind not ideal for keeping a flock of thirty calm in a rocking
boat. Between bleats of packed lambs and cries of kittiwakes nesting on chalky
cliffs, my ears throb. The stink of sour ale wafts from the rowing mate, mixed
with the gamy musk of hot, wet wool coats, queasies my stomach.
I take shallow breaths, concentrate on
sun silvering blue-green water in the distance, not the sharp peaks of dizzying
waves alongside us. Iridescent moss mantles the valleys. I imagine the crimson
clover, ox-eye daisy, and buttercup I saw when last visiting with my love,
Elise.
The sun soothes my arms, back, neck,
matches the warmth of the ewe’s rhythmic heave against my shins.
My arms ease into the cadence of tandem
oaring. The white-haired sheepherder at the bow launches into a rousing sea
shanty about a drunken sailor. My oarsman groans. When I inhale to join the
song, I taste the water’s whiff—elemental, briny-sweet, wild.
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The following four poems
were published in WRITING IN A
WOMAN’S VOICE: The
Call by Remedios Varo, 1961, Fledgling, Frida
Kahlo, Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns and Hummingbird, 1940,
& Georgia
O'Keeffe's It Was Red and Pink, 1959. The poems inspired by artwork have a link below that
will show you that particular work of art.
Happy to have two poems live in the summer issue of “Mezzo Cammin: An Online Journal of Formalist Poetry by Women.” One is an ekphrastric haibun inspired by Frida Kahlo’s 1939 painting titled “The Two Fridas,” and a golden shovel composed from a quote by Georgia O’Keeffe. MEZZO CAMMIN
Happy to have my collage visually represent the poem "Pastoral in the Anthropocene" by Majda Gama for RHINO POETRY’S #RHINOart2art project. Be sure to read Gama’s poem that was the RHINO 2020 Founders' Prize runner up. https://www.facebook.com/rhinopoetry.org/posts/3936754616373208
A poem responding to Frida Kahlo’s 1940 painting “The Dream” is in THE EKPHRASTIC REVIEW.
A cento published in GYROSCOPE REVIEW. My poem (page 40) was created from titles of poetry collections and novels that I’ve read and loved.
Three poems appeared in PANDEMIC EVOLUTION--the Sheila-Na-Gig ekphrastic anthology inspired by the photographs of Matthew Wolfe taken on Day 1 – 100 of the global pandemic, edited by Hayley Mitchell Haugen. Over 300 pages of images and poems by 46 poets from the United States, Canada, India, and Wales. Available at: Pandemic Evolution: Poets Respond to the Art of Matthew Wolfe | Sheila-Na-Gig online (sheilanagigblog.com)
An ekphrastic poem titled “Girl at the Edge” was published in POET LORE.
Three poems published in the Winter 2021 issue of MAIN STREET RAG.
PANOPLY: A LITERARY ZINE published my ekphrastic poem inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting “Summer Days.”
A poem published in Thimble Literary Magazine, inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting “At the Rodeo, New Mexico,” 1919. This poem has a special place in my heart, because when writing it, I was reminded of my husband Lou George, who died many years ago, but who shortly after I met him invited me to a dirt track car race. I'd never been to one, but he'd done that kind of racing back in the day.
A poem responding to John Di Leonardo’s “NudeStudy” in The Ekphrastic Review.
A poem published in the Fall Issue of HeartWood Literary Magazine.
A prose poem in the Fall Issue of Still: The Journal.
Had my first ever visual poems published in Indianapolis Review.
A poem on p. 55 in the Summer issue #45 of https://Tipton Poetry Journal.
A poem inspired by a Georgia O'Keeffe's 1925 painting titled “Red and Brown Leaves” in Salamander.
My poem "Frida Kahlo's The Wounded Deer, 1946" was published in the “body issue” of South Broadway Ghost Society, an online literary and arts journal based in Denver, Colorado.
This is a video of me reading my poem, “The Onset,” which I wrote for the “Postcards from the Pandemic: A Cincinnati Poetry Month Project,” which current Cincinnati Poet Laureate Manuel Iris, and Poet Laureate Emeritus Pauletta Hansel, collaborated on: The Onset. Here’s the text of the poem: Poems from the Pandemic. This poem is dedicated to my mother, Vivian Margaret Riedinger, who died on March 16, 2020, the same night as the President announced a need for social distancing.
“The Dark, a Downy Eye” in Unlost, a Journal of Found Poetry & Art and “In the net of dusk” in Unlost Journal
“What You Dread” and “What You Saved” in Charge Magazine
“Georgia O’Keeffe’s Series I, No, 8, 1919” in Thimble Literary Magazine.
“Specs” in SWWIM
“Impression” in Valparaiso Poetry Review
“Listen” in Verse Daily
“Listening” in Still: The Journal
“Vigils” in Still: The Journal
“Eve Takes to the Air,” “In Sleep’s Cape,” “In the Well,” “Lip of the Well,” & “The Wait” in Heron Tree
“Monet’s The Magpie, 1872” in The Ekphrastic Review
“Emily Carr’s Forest, British Columbia, 1931-2” in The Ekphrastic Review Jan 2018
“Georgia O’Keeffe’s Pattern of Leaves or Leaf Motif #3, 1923-4” in The Ekphrastic Review Jan 2019
“Georgia O’Keeffe’s Nude Series VIII, watercolour, 1917” in Ekphrastic Review
“Dream Brood” in Sliver of Stone
“All night I walked” in 3 Elements Review
Haiku, a found poem composed from Tomas Tranströmer's poem "Morning Bird Songs" in concis
“Bearing Witness” in America Magazine
“Dream Room of You” in Rogue Agent
“Memorypillowed Sleep” in Blast Furnace
“Consider the Female Walrus” in Lime Hawk
“Ode to Color” in Intima
“Inscription in Frida Kahlo’s Masterpieces, Half Price Books” in Star 82 Review
“Alaskan Cruise Haibun” in Blue Lyra Review
“Last Time We Shared a Bed” in Slippery Elm Literary Journal
“Chairs with Views” and “Molting” in Blast Furnace Press
“Aperture” in: qarrtsiluni
“Conversations” in The Cortland Review: Cortland Review
“Dilemmas,” “Impulse to Judge,” “Homogenization,” “Monet’s Ice Floes on the Seine at Bougival, 1867,” and “The Older I Get, the More I Question” in Aeqai, Art For a Better World
My short story titled
"Ripping Off the Bandage" was included in Sheila-Na-Gig Editions'
short fiction anthology, The Last Word & Other Stories,
edited by John Bullock. https://sheilanagigblog.com/.../the-last-word-other-stories/
My short story “Slipping Through the Cracks” was published May 1st in the 27th issue of Jet Fuel Review.
My short story "Naked" was published in Valparaiso Fiction Review's Summer 2023 issue: Valparaiso Fiction Review.
"Naked" is one of the stories in my collection How We Fracture, which won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, and is forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press in Fall/Winter 2023.
“Cornerstone” in Still: The Journal (2014 Fiction Contest Judge's Choice): http://www.stilljournal.net/karen-georgecontest2014.php
“Taking Count” in The Adirondack Review: http://www.theadirondackreview.com/karengeorge.html
“Lifty” in The Barcelona Review: http://www.barcelonareview.com/44/e_kg.htm
Published Non-Fiction:
An ekphrastic non-fiction piece published in an e-book anthology of The Ekphrastic Review
A non-fiction piece, “What I can’t Finish,” in the Fall/Winter issue of Existere: Journal of Arts & Literature
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