Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • The Good Life

    Things a writer might do to stay off the sauce, the skids, and the streets: 1. Start the week Sunday by leading a discussion on the craft of poetry at Brainfood Books in Longmont, CO. 2. Take part in a round table talk about Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral at Boulder Book Store. She might…

  • Tuesday Tip #2: Don’t Be Afraid of Poetry

    Here is a poem from Laura, a new Colorado poet–not new to the state, just new to the art form. She says this poem came to her fully formed, her first ever. And when she told me about it, I could see the confidence she felt in offering it. She knew it was a poem…

  • Not Legs, Wings

    In When Women Were Birds Terry Tempest Williams asks, “How do we give voice to creation?” Here’s my answer. When we write, we create at every level. Copying out a list of quotes from Williams’ book, I have made new use of them, a basket of rushes, taken from their natural habitat. Now I weave them…

  • Tuesday Tips

    This question from Fran, in Arizona: When you read poetry, are you mentally taking it apart as you read it or do you reread it a few times after you enjoy the message and then get really impressed with the work as an art form? I am such a fussbudget about reading poetry. I’ve read a…

  • Negative Space

    One of the poets in our local critique group recently brought a poem that dealt with the space that art tries to occupy. It’s a hard concept to grasp, but we talked for quite a while about the possibility, and I settled on the idea of negative space in visual art. Interestingly, a novel that I…