About Karen Kovacik and New Letters

Today's poem is "Vessel, Vassal"

from New Letters

Karen Kovacik is the author of Metropolis Burning and Beyond the Velvet Curtain; the editor of Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets; and the translator, most recently, of Jacek Dehnel's Aperture, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. From 2012-2014, she was Indiana's Poet Laureate, and she teaches at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
Other poems by Karen Kovacik in Verse Daily:
April 10, 2009: "Elegy for My Sex Life " "Goodbye, closing credits and kissing..."
Books by Karen Kovacik:

Other poems on the web by Karen Kovacik:
Two poems
Four poems
"Pandora Speaks"
Karen Kovacik's Website.
Karen Kovacik According to Wikipedia.
About New Letters:

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Other poems from New Letters in Verse Daily:
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March 23, 2020: "Elegy for Michelle Beginning with One of Her Last Lines" by Aliki Barnstone
March 22, 2020: "Armed Neighbor" by Carl Dennis
November 9, 2019: "'Old Ghost Appears Before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat'" by Roy Bentley
November 8, 2019: "Alaska" by Dion O'Reilly
November 7, 2019: "Three Poems" by Gary Young
May 16, 2019: "What Jazz Isn't" Richard Terrill
May 15, 2019: "'Io Sano Una Bella Luna'" David Thoreen
May 14, 2019: "Nothing Will Warn You" Stephen Dunn
April 18, 2019: "Murmurations" Allison Funk
April 17, 2019: "Ce qu'il reste à vivre" Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
February 21, 2015: "Material" by Jessica Anne Cuello
February 18, 2015: "Lost" by Eric Pankey
February 17, 2015: "Secondary" by Albert Goldbarth
December 18, 2014: "Valentine" by Joseph Millar
November 26, 2014: "Winter Wind" by Stephen Dobyns
June 19, 2013: "Incantations to Snow" by Lawrence Revard
November 24, 2012: "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" by Peter Cooley
November 11, 2011: "Contra Chekhov" by Michael Salcman
January 27, 2010: "Tails" by Maxine Kumin
October 4, 2008: "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White

October 3, 2008: Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang
September 29, 2008: "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth
December 13, 2007: "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
December 11, 2007: "Uncles (Play)" by Kevin Young
November 24, 2007: "Watermelon" by Alice Friman
June 9, 2007: "Aware of Angels" by Mark Jarman
February 20, 2007: "The Deer" by Michael Chitwood
February 17, 2007: "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006: "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
May 29, 2006: "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
November 23, 2005: "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005: "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005: "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005: "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005: "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004: "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004: "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004: "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004: "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
May 16, 2004: "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004: "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003: "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003: "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003: "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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