Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • A Bowl Full of Socks

    Here’s a little gift instead of my usual rattling on about writing. Time to show that I do write stuff.   A BOWL FULL OF SOCKS The Bookish Old Woman sits every morning on the edge of my bed. She brews my tea and butters my bread. She’s not me. Surely, she’s not me with…

  • Lost EMail Account

    Somehow Gmail has misplaced the account poetslab@gmail.com. If you have been trying to reach me via that address, resend to kvdbooks@gmail.com. Thanks.   The problem, no thanks to Google, has been solved. The address poetslab@gmail.com is again accessible.

  • Keeping the Gift Moving

    Almost any writer I know thinks about money, how much it costs to establish a writing practice, how little most writers earn from their art, how commercial the world is. Best Sellers are just that, a list, not of the best books, but of the books that sell the most copies. And as the cliche…

  • Twelve Years Later

    I’ve told my 9-11 story often, but have I written it? I must have. How will I write it now, twelve years later? I just did a mental stumble there—why do this? Does my story matter? If it matters to me, then it matters. There, I just stumbled again.  I need to get out of…

  • Dancing the Night Away

    Tonight I will go to the Mary Miller Theater in Lafayette to see “A . . . My Name Will Always Be Alice,” and tomorrow to The Avenue Theater in Denver for “Unfolding,” a one-woman show by Delta Donahue. Wednesday I heard the CU Jazz Combo play live Latin jazz at the Broomfield Audi. Great…