The 2010 Moving Words Poetry Competition just awarded me an Honorable Mention for my poem i95.
Even those of you that know me and have a reason to look at this blog probably have no idea I've been writing poems for over a decade now and basically not sharing them with anyone...well hardly anyone.
Unfortunately it looks like my work will not be riding on the Arlington Virigia transit system, but I have been asked to read the poem at IOTA on April 11th with the Winners and other Honorable Mentions.
Me on IOTA's stage, after a decade of writing about what went on on that stage at groupiegirldc. That is some kind of role-reversal, eh? If I survive the butterflies, this will certainly be a new addition to my bag of tricks.
Stay tuned for details later.
About Me
- Karen Joan Topping
- is an emerging artist working in multi-media living in Washington DC. With an MFA from The University Of The Arts and a BFA from American University, she has shown her work in many regional group exhibitions. For Karen Joan Topping, things such as toys and candy are the tools and materials for the making of art. She creates installations, sculptures and video projections engaging in a spirit of play and exploration that are inquiries into attention, emotion and judgment as much as they are investigations of aesthetic practices. By using seductive and nostalgic objects from childhood, she examines how fantasy, memory, hope and anxiety can be explored in space and time as well as symbol and form.