Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center present a FREE virtual chat about the craft of poetry! We’re joined by Karen Rigby to discuss her new collection, Fabulosa. Karen is in conversation with Emily Holland, poet and editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal.
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Born in the Republic of Panama in 1979, Karen Rigby now lives and writes in Arizona. Her latest poetry book is Fabulosa (JackLeg Press, 2024). Her debut poetry book, Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012), was selected by Paul Hoover for a 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and described by Booklist as “poignant, powerful, and urgent.”
Karen’s work has been honored by a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. She is a 2023 recipient of an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her poetry is published in journals such as The London Magazine, Poetry Northwest, The Oxonian Review, and Australian Book Review.
She’s read at venues including Rice University, Saint Vincent College, and the Tucson Festival of Books, and serves as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentor (Season 20 and Season 18). A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Karen freelances as a book reviewer.
About the Book
From editor Simone Muench: “Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings, Fabulosa
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