Karen Kevorkian's three poetry collections are White Stucco Black Wing, Lizard Dream, and, in 2020, Quivira (3:A Taos Press). Her poems and book reviews are featured in numerous journals, including Volt, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Since 2009 she has taught creative writing at UCLA.

Other poems by Karen Kevorkian in Verse Daily:
November 18, 2009:   "An Interruption" "A black cat appeared against a smooth adobe wall in a break..."
November 28, 2006:   "Once I Was in Wyoming" " Once I was in Wyoming..."

Books by Karen Kevorkian:

Other poems on the web by Karen Kevorkian:
Eigth poems
Three poems
"What Had Once Been My City"
Three poems
Two poems

Karen Kevorkian's Website.

Karen Kevorkian on Twitter.

About Quivira:

"Quivira, Karen Kevorkian's dazzling new collection of poems, explores the ways in which time can be measured in movement–in her case through the vast, riveting, and often bewildering spaces of the American West. Voices, familiar and otherwise, inhabit these poems, which ceaselessly interrogate the land and its varieties of human and nonhuman experience: 'what an idea trying to outrun/ the fire,' she writes, 'in a moment/ on you.' No one escapes the fire in these poems, which will burn for a very long time to come."
—Christopher Merrill

"In Quivira, Karen Kevorkian reconfigures a pastoral topography populated by memory and disrupted by a history of unacknowledged violence. The body's memory and the recovery of its elisions are localized in the landscapes of New Mexico, the Southwest, and Los Angeles. 'Where men strap on leaf blowers' 'in fantasies of Spanish stucco', Kevorkian evokes the longing for a present embodied by the truths of genocide and the acknowledgement of common loss. Among the mudbricked churches, 'the little mustached saints' bedroomy eyes,' the tin wings of angelitos, the Catholic hand-carved icons scrubbed clean of conquest and colonization, Kevorkian recovers the scars, the beauty, and the sensuality of living among the ghosts of History and memory."
—Ramón García