Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • POETRY MONTH 2022

    Poetry is necessary right now, not that there’s been a time when we didn’t need it. I suspect that you know this already, so I won’t belabor the point. But forget if you can, whatever painful approach your education may have foisted upon you. A poem is a machine made of words, sometimes it runs…

  • Music Matters

    Whether I’ve had a busy day or not, I easily fall asleep to instrumental music, often Kitaro or Kailin Yong, two talented musicians whose music is beautiful sound sans speech. And when I settle in with my journal in the morning, it’s often Vivaldi who helps me think. If you were, however, to challenge my…

  • BAD BOOK, GOOD BOOK

    Today I went to the library in search of information on climate science and jotted down the call numbers of several non-fiction books that will serve my purposes, but instead I decided to see how novelists are handling the looming issue of sea level rise. I wish I had stayed with my original intention. One…

  • Time to Wakeup

    Am I in any way a citizen of the world or only of my familiar part of the world? As we come out of seclusion, we are little groundhogs poking our heads out into the open field where we have lived sequestered far too long. Time to wake up, use our eyes and ears. Reclaim…

  • CAT, DOG, HORSE, WAR

    When I make a list of my roles in life, I include “cat owner,” and “former horse owner.” These labels do, though, give me a stomachache if I look at them from the other side, so to speak. Neither cat nor horse understand ownership. The cat knows whom to complain to if the kibble level…