No More Milk

Karen Craigo writes Real People Poetry. Poetry by a real person, who, like all of us, is many different things to many different people every single day; someone who exalts in nature and love and God in one moment and the next notes that life gives you "all kind of shit." It's poetry that swings between feeling every one of the "thousand ways to be unprepared"--seeking more money, more time, more connection or solitude--and also knowing that the body "is so holy you'd have to leave your shoes to step inside." And it's poetry for real people, too, who yearn to have "the worth of small things" declared for us in beautiful, generous terms, because sometimes small things are all we have. People who need to feel heard and understood, and to know someone else out there is "upside down...is waiting...is making ready to fall." Karen Craigo's poetry is for all of us, and we didn't even know that we needed it. But we do. I did. And you do.
—Jessica Piazza