Karen Head
Karen Head is an American poet, educator and editor. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is the executive director of the Communication Center. Head is known for her contributions to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Head is also the editor of the international poetry journal, Atlanta Review. In April 2018, the Waffle House Foundation funded Head's poetry tour project for under-served Georgia high school students. Additionally, Head was declared Waffle House Poet Laureate. In 2020, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia.
Works
Books
- Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology
- Lost on Purpose
- Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
- On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year
- Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems
- Sassing
- My Paris Year
- ''Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems''