“My writing often examines our relationship with wilderness and the nonhuman world. While hiking Jay Mountain in the northern Adirondacks in 2021, I felt the steady exertion and rhythm of the climb take on a defiance suggested by the rugged structure of the terrain and flora along the ridge to Jay’s summit. That led me to explore with this poem how the land lives within us.”
Sylvia Karman’s work appears in Delmarva Review, Blueline, Embark Literary Journal, and Amethyst Review, among others. Her poetry is featured in the 2021 anthology of Writing the Land: Northeast. Sylvia lives in the New York Adirondacks and central Maryland where she hikes and writes for the love of the journey.
