Karen Head

Karen Head
BornKaren Judy Head
1967 (age 57–58)
United States
OccupationPoet, educator, editor
Period2003–present
Website
karenhead.gatech.edu/index.html

Karen Head is an American poet, educator and editor. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the executive director of the Communication Center. Head is known for her contributions to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)[1]

Head is also the editor of the international poetry journal, Atlanta Review. In April 2018, the Waffle House Foundation funded Head's poetry tour project for under-served Georgia high school students. Additionally, Head was declared Waffle House Poet Laureate.[2] In 2020, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia. [3]


Works

Books

  • Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2020, ISBN 978-1948692427)
  • Lost on Purpose (Iris Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1604542554)
  • Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (University Press of New England, 2017, ISBN 978-1512600506)
  • On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1304881267)
  • Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1443876551)
  • Sassing (WordTech Communications, 2009, ISBN 978-1934999592)
  • My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009, ISBN 1-55245-154-2)
  • Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems (All Nations Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0972511025)

References

  1. ^ Guzdial, Mark (October 18, 2013). "Results From the First-Year Course MOOCs: Not There Yet". Communications of the ACM. ACM. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  2. ^ "Poetry Foundation: Waffle House Has Its Own Poet Laureate". Poetry Foundation Poetry News. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "Fulton County Arts and Culture Announces Poet Laureate". Fulton County Georgia Government News. Fulton County Georgia Government. Retrieved September 25, 2020.