Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • Mean Good-hearted Poems

      Mean: shabby, of poor origin, hard to deal with. Or, excellent, skillful. Could go either way, but in the case of poems written by Thomas Lux, I mean the latter version of mean. He writes a mean poem. And sometimes he writes a dark and violent poem.”Quarrels with the world”–that’s what Lux called his…

  • Butterflies or Book Reviews

        Ginger was a slightly neurotic, but lovely, Irish setter. A family pet, she spent her outdoor time in a large fenced pen in the back yard. As a family, we were too busy and too ignorant to keep her busy, but she entertained herself as best she could. One day at the kitchen…

  • How a Poem Happens

        The newborn arrives in a taxi cab, at home, in a delivery room and somehow every birth is unique. So too with poems. But often my process works this way. 1. A friend, a book, an event yields a general prompt. Most recently my key words were hidden and obvious. These from my…

  • Food Additives, the Reading List Grows

        If you already have a copy of Feed: Reading Lists for Those Who Eat, you can add the following titles: Farm City: The education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter (2010) Breaking Through Concrete: Building an urban farm revival by David Hanson (2012) White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kilby (2011,…

  • Know When to Hold ‘Em

        Like Jupiter and Venus brightly aligned, my two face-to-face writing groups met yesterday, one in the morning and one in the evening. They are the yin and yang of my writing life. The morning group consists of five women who have been writing together every two weeks for several years. First we talk,…