On the spot poetry: Live, spontaneous, improvisational; this is how karen a. dalyea performs her poetry on stage. But she does not just perform it, she creates it . . . live. On the spot In songs of the worm whisperer, karen proves her spontaneous poetry is not only live, it is vital, emersive and essential. She lives in the world as it exists, in the here and now, and her poetry reveals those sensibilities. With astute perception, she shows us the world with all its cracks and crevices open and in view.