Once Elizabeth J. Colen lays an image down (and she lays images down one at a time, like celluloids or tracing paper), it’s impossible to un-see or un-know it. And—the most remarkable of all— the truths she constructs are far more nuanced and intuitive to the human condition. Read More
Elizabeth Colen’s ambitious Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies (Jaded Ibis Press) offers a cohesion of themes:...
"...I realized that what conspiracy theories are—if they aren’t true—are our way of seeking order, of making sense of the chaos of these terrible events..."
In her recent book of poems, Waiting Up for the End of the World, Elizabeth J. Colen examines conspiracy theories from the 20th and 21st centuries—anything from Area 51, the fluoride conspiracy, chemtrails, the North American Union, the assassination of JFK, and much more.
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Flash fiction. Like lightning, it’s a brief illumination, the sky of your mind brightened with an image that, at its...
Today, a poem from Elizabeth J. Colen’s Money for Sunsets (Steel Toe Books), one of this year’s Lambda Literary Award...
Lambda Literary Award Finalist A body washes up on an unnamed beach in the Pacific Northwest. So begins Elizabeth Colen’s...


