Barbara Koons

Koons specializes in poetry and creative nonfiction works that combine written and visual imagery. Her first book will be published this year. Her poetry focuses on everyday life, working from a point where reality and imagination merge. She uses imagery to reinforce that convergence. The poems of Koons will deal with the realities of everyday life. They are accesible and forthright. A common theme concerns the connections between generations and the multiple roles everth family member plays as they weave past and present together in the course of their lives. Reviewer Andrew Madigan has desribed her work as “clear, unpretentious, evocative, and packed with real life. It’s visceral, not ethereal.”