Karen Paul Holmes’s poem captures the tension between desire and distaste.
Karen Paul Holmes
About Karen Paul Holmes
Karen Paul Holmes has a full-length poetry collection, Untying the Knot (Aldrich Press, May 2014). Other publishing credits include Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Atticus Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, the Southern Poetry Anthology Vol 5: Georgia (Texas Review Press), and many others. To support fellow writers, Holmes originated and hosts a critique group in Atlanta and Writers’ Night Out in the Blue Ridge Mountains.