Karl Elder https://www.karlelder.com Poet | Fiction Writer Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:53:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.karlelder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-Site-Icon-4-32x32.png Karl Elder https://www.karlelder.com 32 32 Karl meets Joe Bonamassa https://www.karlelder.com/karl-meets-joe-bonamassa/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:47:07 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=795 Thanks to a pre-Covid Christmas gift from their son Wade and his family, Karl and Brenda Elder finally meet their favorite blues guitarist and virtuoso, who holds a new copy of ALPHA IMAGES with its inscription “For Joe Bonamassa / Riverside / 2-18-23 / With Admiration, / Karl Elder”.

Karl Elder with Joe Bonamassa
(l-r) Karl Elder, Joe Bonamassa with copy of Alpha Images, and Brenda Elder
]]> Random Acts reviewed https://www.karlelder.com/random-acts-reviewed/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:37:00 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=776 LB Sedlacek reviewed Karl’s newest collection, Random Acts, in Pegasus Literary, saying in part, “Elder’s poems are contemplative as well as compelling.” The book is available to purchase from the publisher or at Amazon.com.

]]> Recent publications https://www.karlelder.com/recent-publications/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:22:47 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=773 Karl Elder’s new publications include “Matri Vox” in Last Stanza Poetry Journal; “Maya” and “Magic Act” in The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry; “In a Town Called Unincorporated” in Literature Today.

]]> Alpha Images and Revelry’s Ilk reviewed https://www.karlelder.com/alpha-images-and-revelrys-ilk-reviewed/ Thu, 06 May 2021 14:27:05 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=769 Portage Magazine

Portage Magazine: A review of upper Midwestern writing, art, and culture has published two reviews of Karl Elder’s books. Check them out along with the rest of the excellent content in the current issue.

Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New by Karl Elder; reviewed by Fred Kreutz

Reverie’s Ilk: Collected Prose Poems by Karl Elder; reviewed by Brad Weller

]]> Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New published at Water’s Edge Press https://www.karlelder.com/alpha-images-poems-selected-and-new-published/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:53:27 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=755

It is with pleasure yet a modicum of trepidation on my part to speak of the release of my latest (and perhaps last) collection, Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New, from Water’s Edge Press.

This 270 page volume includes over 50 new or previously uncollected poems.

Available to order now.

]]> Audio: Karl reads “Aboreal” https://www.karlelder.com/karl-reads-aboreal/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:01:08 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=760 “Arboreal” is the last poem in my new collection, Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New.

]]> Halfway to the North Pole https://www.karlelder.com/halfway-to-the-north-pole/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:55:55 +0000 https://www.karlelder.com/?p=734

Karl Elder’s previously published dramatic monologue, “Increase Claflin,” cast as the voice of the first white settler of Door County, has found a second home in the newly released Halfway to the North Pole from the Door County Poets Collective.  The poem shall be included in the poet’s forthcoming Alpha Images (Water’s Edge Press).

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