Karan Kapoor has been awarded or placed for James Hearst Poetry Prize, Frontier Global Poetry Prize, Rattle Annual Prize, Ledbury Poetry Prize, Julia Darling Memorial Prize, Red Wheelbarrow Prize, John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry, Orison Anthology Award, and Literary Taxidermy Competition. Their manuscript Portrait of the Alcoholic as a Father was a semi-finalist for the Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, North American Review, Poetry Online, Colorado Review, The Offing, Strange Horizons, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. They’re an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech. You can find them at: karankapoor.co.in.
the plague comes back — he’s trying to bolt the door — the trial exhausts him — to become water again he gambols with a bottle — come dusk the children ask — when will you return — there is an iron gate before the answer — a haunted house of mercy — an old friend survived a snowstorm —… Read more →