No Such Thing as Distance, by Karen Paul-Holmes

Congratulations to Karen for the feature of her poem Making Zelnick at the Sibling Reunion at The Slowdown, January 13, 2020. Listen to Tracy K. Smith read and comment on the poem.

Congratulations to Karen for the feature of her poem Rental Cottage, Maine on The Writer's Almanac on October 16, 2019.

Congratulations to Karen for the feature of her poem Counterbalance on Moms in Poetry. From her book, No Such Thing as Distance.

Congratulations to Karen for the feature of her poem What do you save on Verse Daily. From her book, No Such Thing as Distance.

Congratulations to Karen for being the featured poet in Rebecca Foust's "Poetry Sunday" column in Women's Voices for Change.

Praise for No Such Thing as Distance
What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father’s Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog and finds the attentions of a drunk cowboy oddly flattering. There are so many good poems here that it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’ll put my money on “Confessions of an Ugly Nightgown,” in which a dead woman’s shapeless article of intimate apparel says it can still rouse a sleeping husband and is loveliest as it lies on the floor.
            —David Kirby

​Karen Paul Holmes is the author of the full-length collection, Untying the Knot (Aldrich Press, 2014). Her awards include an Elizabeth George Foundation emerging writer grant for poetry. She was chosen for Best Emerging Poets 2015 and has had work published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, and Poet Lore. She founded and hosts a critique group in Atlanta and Writers’ Night Out in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Following a corporate career in marketing communications, she now works as a freelance writer. She lives in Georgia.

www.karenpaulholmes.com

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