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, Witness'

Karen Kevorkian’s most powerful poems are intricate, dense, and resonant constructions whose affect is deep and precise, thus—in the strict philosophical sense—irreducible.
—David Lee Rubin, The Poetry Board, The Virginia Quarterly Review