Karen Head
Rara Avis How does it happen? You find yourself in a strange city, the kind of place catalogued by Baedeker, walking along a river, usually, pretending to enjoy your solitude as the afternoon edges into evening, when suddenly, it’s always sudden, you round a corner, where you had not planned a turn, to find yourself just beyond the cathedral, the palace, the museum, duty free, fumbling for your guidebook only to discover something or someone you didn’t know you needed to find.
Karen Head is the author of Sassing (WordTech Press, forthcoming 2009), My Paris Year (All Nations Press, forthcoming October 2008) and Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003). Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. As a scholar of contemporary American poetry, she has begun to explore the connections between traditional textbased poetry and digitally-enhanced poetry, an exploration that involves her in a number of projects being conducted in the Wesley Center for New Media at Georgia Tech. Her digital poetry was featured at the E-Poetry 2007 festival in Paris.
On the move, Michael Doyle Taken in Nieumarkt, Amsterdam.
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