“A Country of Influence: A Conversation with Karen Kevorkian”—Interviewed by Ramón Garcia for Los Angeles Review of Books
“KAREN KEVORKIAN’S THIRD BOOK of poetry, Quivira, is her most experimental in language and the most deeply grounded in Southwestern social space. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Kevorkian has lived in Los Angeles for over a decade and for extended times in the New Mexico figured in Quivira. The Southwestern and Los Angeles landscape continue to fascinate Kevorkian, and in Quivira that interest extends to colonial history and its perilous imaginings . . . ”