Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of Strange Pilgrims and ONLY POEMS. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, Rattle, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of hope, and translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. He holds an MFA from Virginia Tech. His debut collection, Thirst, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.
Books
Selected work
What It Is Is What It Is Not and What It Is Not Is What It Is by Karan Kapoor - Rattle: Poetry
Rattle Poetry, 2021
All of Leonard Cohen’s Books Ranked
ONLY POEMS, 2024
a condensed history of my father’s addiction
AGNI Online
In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love
Strange Horizons, 2025
A Perfect House is Where No One Lives
JOYLAND PUBLISHING, 2023
Dida
Colorado Review, 2023
Portrait of the Father as an Alcoholic
Rattle Poetry
The Knife, the Flame, the Father | Book Review
ONLY POEMS, 2026
Ghazal for Dida
Rattle Poetry, 2022
Poetry: tug of war between whisper and rumor by Karan Kapoor | Frontier Poetry - Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
Frontier Poetry, 2023
Salman, Bombay by Karan Kapoor - Rattle: Poetry
Rattle Poetry, 2022
Karan Kapoor — Poetry Online
Poetry Online (poetry.onl), 2023
Things with which we will foul the Ganga - The Cincinnati Review
The Cincinnati Review, 2023
I don’t think it's fair
The Maine Review, 2023
Karan Kapoor - How To Quit - HOAX
HOAX, 2023
Time is a motherfucker
Strange Horizons, 2023
Circles by Karan Kapoor - Rattle: Poetry
Rattle Poetry, 2022
