Karen Jones

Karen Jones joined The Mid-America Poetry Review as an Associate Editor in 2004. Karen writes: “Instead of following a direct course to college after high school in Lafayette, Indiana, I chose instead to wander the United States. Along the way, I touched north in Alaska, south in Arizona, west in California, east in Connecticut and Massachusetts. In 1997 I gravitated back to the center and came to call Missouri home.

“The journey included strides down roads previously traveled, some months digging through paths full of weeds and times of confusion when a planned-for route was found erased. Words, passages to minds others than my own, very early made their imprint on me. They have remained steady companions, and through them I’ve mapped connections to the consciousness of people I’ve met solely by the lines and markings they left behind. I’ve followed trails of expression into the mists of other worlds, stood on thresholds between shimmering dreamscapes and solid stones of memory, and discovered maps to landscapes of wonder. I have come to believe that through single strands of light we build our webs. . . .”