past is a flame

Karen Earle is a poet whose work has appeared in various journals, including: Lily Poetry Review, Sugar House Review, The Denver Quarterly, the filling Station, The Hopper, Clade Song, and in Tupelo Press’ The Last Millweed Anthology. She was awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship and has attended several Colrain Poetry Conferences. She earned an MFA in poetry from University of Massachusetts/Amherst, directed the writing lab at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, and serves as faculty member of the New Directions Program/Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge. A psychotherapist in private practice, she lives and works in Shelburne Falls, MA, a small town in western Massachusetts best known for its Bridge of Flowers.