Karl meets Joe Bonamassa

Thanks to a pre-Covid Christmas gift from their son Wade and his family, Karl and Brenda Elder finally meet their favorite blues guitarist and virtuoso, who holds a new copy of ALPHA IMAGES with its inscription “For Joe Bonamassa…

Alpha Images and Revelry’s Ilk reviewed

Portage Magazine Portage Magazine: A review of upper Midwestern writing, art, and culture has published two reviews of Karl Elder's books. Check them out along with the rest of the excellent content in the current issue. Alpha Images: Poems…

Halfway to the North Pole

Karl Elder’s previously published dramatic monologue, “Increase Claflin,” cast as the voice of the first white settler of Door County, has found a second home in the newly released Halfway to the North Pole from the Door County Poets Collective.  The poem…

Reverie’s Ilk

A collection of prose poems entitled Reverie’s Ilk: Collected Prose Poems is soon to be released from CyberWit. "Karl Elder is a poet of rich imagination and high intelligence, whose work I have admired for many years. His formal prowess…

Poetry Reading

Lakeland University’s Esch Library will host a poetry reading of Professor Karl Elder’s “Phobophobia” on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all. “Phobophobia” was originally published in 1987 in collaboration with Prickly Pear…

“The Unclimbing” in new Whitman anthology

Fessler Professor of Creative Writing Karl Elder’s work “The Unclimbing” appears in the newly released Walt Whitman bicentennial anthology, "Poets to Come," from Local Gems Press of Long Island, N.Y. Link to book on Amazon