Karen Paul Holmes

Karen Paul Holmes won the 2023 Lascaux Poetry Prize and received a Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her books are: No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin) and Untying the Knot (Aldrich). Poetry credits include The Writer’s Almanac, The Slowdown, Verse Daily, Diode, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Pedestal Magazine. She’s also a freelance writer who teaches writing at various venues and conferences.

 

 

  • Apology to My Husband’s Snore

    You goosehonk, one-note oboe or contrabassoon.
  • Unrest or What the French Horn Can Teach You

    To master the French Horn, you need lips of steel
  • Once I loved an opera singer from Spain

    for 15 days, maybe 20.