Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

Owens’ New Novel

Last evening at Caribou Coffee in Westminster, Colorado author Freddie Owens read from his recently published novel, Then Like the Blind Man, Orbie’s Story. Believe me, you’ll want to read this one. As the jacket copy says, this is “the story of a feisty wunderkind in the segregated South of the 1950s, and the forces…

February 22, 2013
Tuesday Tip #3

Big sigh, no questions, no poems. I guess everyone knows all there is to know about learning to write poetry. Wish I did.

February 19, 2013
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…

February 15, 2013
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…

February 12, 2013
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…

February 8, 2013