Karen Volkman Karen Volkman, author of Crash’s Law, Spar, and Nomina, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana, Missoula. Poet’s Sampler: Brandon Shimoda Brandon Shimoda Karen Volkman Light and TwilightThe Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. Karen Volkman Two Sonnets Karen Volkman Fellow TravelersFanny Howe's Gone. Karen Volkman Sonnet Karen Volkman Sonnet Karen Volkman Green, Prickly HumanityRural Wisconsin’s exhilarating, lost poet Karen Volkman