Karen Skolfield
Karen Skolfield’s book Frost in the Low Areas (Zone 3 Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. She’s the winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from The Missouri Review. Skolfield is an Army veteran and teaches writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Reading List
Shipwreck Sunday
(for James Tate) Those cold bones of marrowed wood beneath a ragged lake gone still for once, Lake Michigan. How you’d hidden them beneath a coat of silt until today. Unbuttoning bares your clavicle of hull and keel, your ribs …
Classic Green Army Figures Give Up Guns for Yoga
(for Dan Abramson, creator of “Yoga Joes”) At the apex of the pose those little green arms feel the pop of little green tendons. Satisfaction of the stretch. Whoever said lay down your weapons has never laid down weapons in …