Browse: authors: s:

Karen Schubert

Karen Schubert's chapbook The Geography of Lost Houses (2008) was published by Pudding House, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Redactions, the Mayo Review, Slant, Willows Wept Review, and ragazine. In 2008, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. She is a recent editor of Whiskey Island Magazine. A visiting writer at Texas A&M Commerce, she has eaten handcrafted lasagne with her Italian housemates.

Duality

30 July 2009
Vol. 9, No. 2
poetry

Because we stash words

in our temporal lobes

in pairs—best friend with dog,

dog with cat, catatonia with last Friday, fried

eggs with broken plate—

we see associations before we say them: …

Fast Forward

27 July 2009
Vol. 9, No. 2
poetry

You couldn't talk to me, you said, meaning

you couldn't hear, which was ok since

I'd lost my voice. That was before I started

singing, pushing the vacuum ahead of me

like a seed spreader, tethered to the stereo

by headphones. You were absent enough for me…