Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • Art Where the Heart Lives

    Wow! Good week for poetry from where I sit. On Wednesday I attended a monthly writing group at the American Museum of Western Art in Denver. These events are co-sponsored by Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, and I always begin the session with a nagging troll in my head who says, “You have nothing to say about…

  • Life Gets Busy, You Know?

    I try to keep a schedule for the blog posts but some weeks it just doesn’t fit comfortably. And comfort becomes important as I juggle two writing projects. (Not to mention planning a launch party for the third novel.) One of the current projects is genealogy. It’s been years in the making, documenting the lives of…

  • Polemic or Political?

    For decades, no, for millennia, critics have debated the uses of poetry. Plato, remember him? He would have banned poets from his ideal republic. Trouble makers, dreamers, realists instead of idealists. All true. Then a while later along came the US Constitution and the idea of free speech. Wahoo! Poets could make as much trouble…

  • Please, Read for Equality

    I’ve said it before but now more than ever, this is important. We all need to read books written by people who don’t look like us. Here are three that I’m reading this week and each one is valuable, readable and satisfying. Alexie, Sherman. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, a Memoir.  Alexie,…

  • Imperfect Gifts

    One of my favorite books is The Gift, by Lewis Hyde. It’s about passing along the gifts of creativity–writing, visual art, music, etc. It came up again this past week with a group of writers. But what if the gifts I give are less than perfect, not even close? After all, would I give someone…