Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

Tag: poetry

  • Sorrow & Confusion

    I’ve been reading David Orr’s You, Too, Could Write a Poem: Selected Reviews and Essays, 2000-2015.  Orr’s style and substance are fine, and he goes deep into issues that concern me. Circumstance or synchronicity, not sure which, drew me to copy into my journal the question of whether or not a “bad man” could write…

  • Getting Serious

    After much thought, I’m changing my ways. I’ve deactivated Twitter and LinkedIn, tried to get rid of my personal Face Book page (not a simple task, but I’ll keep trying), all in the interest of using my time better. I’ll leave my Karen Douglass Author page intact, as it might be useful to those who…

  • A Plan in January

    So, last blog I said I would this week reveal my writing plan for the future. First, regarding the future, Fate is in charge. What I intend, though, is this: I’m rejoining my tribe, poets, and now my mornings pages are full of old words and new insights. I’m mining for prompts two books, Tremor…

  • 2017 in Review

    This weekend many of us will look over our shoulders and see what’s behind us, not what’s stalking us, but what we have accomplished, other than staying alive. Mostly, I think of the work I’ve done. Keeping a positive attitude so that I don’t shred myself to tatters over what’s left undone. So, let’s see…

  • What Inspires Me

    TWISTED TREES It’s easy to praise lush trees weighted with fruit or flowers but the true test of love is to trace skeletal silhouettes, stripped of their leaves by the wind. What remains— the endurance of bark, exposed, the wisdom of bare branches to carry less of winter’s weight.    Karen Douglass Photograph used with…