Elena Karina Byrne Explained

Elena Karina Byrne
Nationality:	American
Genre:	poetry
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Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor. Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in The Best American Poetry 2005 and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which she has been nominated eleven times.

She was a regional director of the Poetry Society of America for twelve years.^[1] Byrne has curated poetry readings at the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review.^{[2] [3]}

She is the daughter of American artist Herbert Jepson.

Books

• The Flammable Bird Lincoln, Neb. : Zoo Press : 2002.,
• Masque Dorset, Vt. : Tupelo Press, 2008.,
• Squander, Richmond, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2016.,
• The Fable Language (forthcoming)^[4]
• Voyeur Hour (forthcoming)^[5]
• Beautiful Insignificance (forthcoming)^[6]

External links

• Web site: Roderick . David . State Lines: Elena Karina Byrne's 'Palm Springs, Pale as a Church Candle' . SFChronicle.com . 2018-04-04 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: About.com:Poetry . 2010-07-16 . 2010-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101206155913/http://poetry.about.com/library/blebyrne.htm . dead .
2. News: Two Poems. Byrne. Elena Karina. 2003. 2019-01-14. 168. Winter 2003. en. 0031-2037.
3. News: Sanctuary of Hunger. Byrne. Elena Karina. 2000. 2019-01-14. 157. Winter 2000. en. 0031-2037.
4. https://www.tupelopress.org/authors/byrne Author bio at Tupelo Press
5. http://www.diodepoetry.com/v2n1/content/byrne_ek.html Author bio at Diode online magazine
6. http://www.diodepoetry.com/v2n1/content/byrne_ek.html Author bio at Diode online magazine