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In the Woods Called Karen on YouTube

June 12, 2025

"In the Woods Called Karen" is a poem I wrote between Paris and the mountains of Aigues-Vives, over a few months, moving "white-haired commas" here and there. It was originally recorded for and published in Voicemail Poems back in November 2019. Integral to its composition was the 1970s footage of Dalton at her Colorado home. The stills appearing on this video’s cover come from that 1970s documentary which paired Dalton’s recording of "Blues Jumped The Rabbit" with her preparing something in her kitchen, strumming her guitar, and running through the mountains. The documentary was purportedly filmed for French television by Greek filmmaker, radio producer, and poet Roviros Manthoulis. I’m resurrecting the text here in a sort of personal research project into what I’m doing in my poetics by visiting all of these mis-visited women artists.

Three New Poems in Westerly Magazine →