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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) ^[1]

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. ^[2] In 2020, she was named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County, Georgia. ^[3]

Works

Books

• Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2020, ISBN  978-1948692427)
• Lost on Purpose (Iris Press, 2019, ISBN  978-1604542554)
• Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (University Press of New England, 2017, ISBN  978-1512600506)
• On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press, 2014, ISBN  978-1304881267)
• Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, ISBN  978-1443876551)
• Sassing (WordTech Communications, 2009, ISBN  978-1934999592)
• My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009, ISBN  1-55245-154-2)
• Shadow Boxes: Poems and Prose Poems (All Nations Press, 2003, ISBN  978-0972511025)

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