“Brush Strokes” appears in Doing the Hundreds at 50

Karl Elder’s “Brush Strokes,” an acrostic of 100 syllables composed at the invitation of Nimrod International Journal from the University of Tulsa in celebration of Oklahoma’s centennial and the journal’s 50th anniversary, appears in Doing the Hundreds at 50,…

“Negative Capability” anthologized

Karl Elder's "Negative Capability" (the poem's title a phrase coined by John Keats in 1817 in a letter to his brothers in which he extols the virtue of uncertainty) dedicated to the 83-year-old editor and matriarch of Beloit Poetry…

Runes: A Review of Poetry

Karl Elder's prose poem, "Prepubesence, " appears in the newly-released Runes: A Review of Poetry, the annual thematic anthology from Arctos Press of Sausalito, California. An image of the volume's cover is available at http://members.aol.com/Runes/Signals.html .

“The Strip” featured in Dirt

Fessler Professor Karl Elder's "The Strip," a genre-crossing literary experiment, will be featured in Dirt, an anthology released in conjunction with The Pittsburg Creative Nonfiction Literary Festival beginning November 12. For details about the anthology, billed as "fourteen dirty…

Saturday Poem

Karl Elder's "In a Town Called Unincorporated" appears in the "Saturday's Poem" feature at The Middlewesterner:. The piece will be permanently archived at http://middlewesterner.blogspot.com/2004_08_28_middlewesterner_archive.html#1086

Appearing Elsewhere

Karl Elder's poem "Firebuck" from his 1994 collection A Man in Pieces has been reprinted in Sacred Fire: The Power of the First Element to Change Your Life. Poet in Residence Karl Elder’s “A Short History of History” and…