Read poems from Lizard Dream:

“Willow and Pecan, Hackberry and Huisache”

“I Was Not Listening”

“After a Few Pages I Understood No More Than When I Began Reading”

“Put Down That Heavy Kettle”

Karen Kevorkian’s most powerful poems—“An Interruption,” “A Fall That Occurred in Recent History,” and “Five O’Clock,” among others—are intricate, dense, and resonant constructions whose effect is deep and precise, thus—in the strict philosophical sense—irreducible.
—David Lee Rubin

Kevorkian finds the extraordinary in patterns of everyday life. Whether moving through an arid landscape of desert flora, exploring the waving of inflatable tube men, or registering the incessant barking of dogs, her poems discover “something hidden / / in all this”—a wellspring of meaning and wonder. Intimate, loving, and spare, Lizard Dream casts the familiar in a brilliant luster.
—Joshua Kryah