Poetry by Karen Kelsay
Karen Kelsay is the founder and editor of The Orchards Poetry Journal, and the former editor of the poetry magazine Victorian Violet Press. She has authored several books and chapbooks: Lavender Song (Fortunate Childe Publications 2011), In Spite of Her (Flutter Press 2010), Song of the Bluebell Fairy (Pudding House Publications 2010), A Fist of Roots (Pudding House Publications 2009), Somewhere Near Evesham ( The New Formalist 2009), and two full length collections, Dove on a Church Bench (Punkin House 2011), and Amytis Leaves Her Garden (White Violet Press 2012). She has been published in numerous anthologies, including Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages 2011) a collection of 21st-century Mormon poets. In 2012 she received the Fluvanna award from The Lyric and is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Karen has been the featured poet in The New Formalist, The Nervous Breakdown, Russell Bittner's Poet's Corner, and A Motley Vision. Her work has appeared in The Flea, The Raintown Review, The Lyric, 14 by 14 Magazine, Trinacria, Tipton Poetry Journal, Medullah Review, Mezzo Cammin, String Poet, Angle: Journal of Poetry, The Foundling Review, Grey Sparrow, and many others. You can read more of her poetry at The HyperTexts. Karen is also listed on the Poetry Foundation's website.