About Karen Blomain
M.F.A. Columbia University
Poetry, Fiction, Plays, Non-Fiction, and Translations
Poetry:
Books: Black Diamond; Borrowed Light; The Slap; Normal Ave., Greatest Hits; Hard Bargain
Fiction:
Short stories.
Non-Fiction:
Book reviews and essays.
Plays:
Editor:
COALSEAM: Poems from the Anthracite Region
Co-Editor: Palpable Clock: Twenty-Five Years of Mulberry
Poets and Writers
Translation:
From the Spanish, IR, poems by Myriam Diaz-Diacoretz
From the Russian (with co-translator Maya Petruhkina) Official English translators of Inna Lisnanskaya and Simon Lipkin
Residencies:
Ragdale Foundation
Djerassi Foundation
Vermont Studio Center
Blue Mountain Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
J. Paul Getty Museum
International Inkwell, France
Anam Cara, Ireland
Casa Trinidad, Mexico
Professional Affiliations:
The Authors Guild
The Dramatists Guild
PEN
AWP
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Mulberry Poets and Writers--Board Member
Electric Theatre Company--Board Member
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Poem, "Susquehanna" Luzerne County Transit Association, Poetry in Motion, bus installation, Summer, 2009
Poem, "Family Tree" Revival, Limerick, Ireland, May 2009
Poem,"Summer Ornamental-Route 171" in Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna, January 2009
Poem, "Green" published in the December issue of Anam Cara Cascade, Eyeries, Cork, Ireland
Art and Poetry: The poem,"The Mystic" will be one of fourteen poetry/art installations in the BE MINE EXHIBIT,Alliance Gallery, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, February 2009
Poems, "Witch History," Sparklers," "The Professor's Inner Child," Illuminations--Fire, Light and Heat, Winter 2008
Comments from workshop participants:
I really enjoyed hearing what you had to say about the craft of writing… I've always had a hard time getting motivated/finding time, etc. to write (like a lot of other people). I found your wisdom particularly effective.
Best wishes to you in your
work—you are an amazing and inspiring teacher.
Do it again! Just what I needed--fertile prompts; time to write and to listen to other's writing; good talk; wonderful...
A good mixture of topics and discussion and feedback. Top marks on everything. More of the same, please.
Great A+
You should really write a book!
Thank you for the wonderful workshops you brought to The Write Stuff (Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Guild). They were a big part of what made this year's conference a success. Many of the surveys put you at the top--with exclamation points.
Karen Blomain and Michael Downend's workshop was a week of
well-timed magical inspiration for me a few years back. I arrived wrung
out creatively, and really needed a gentle boost, a fresh start, a
creative MOT and a new pair of creative specs. I never looked back, and am grateful to them for their generosity of spirit as well as terrific craft input.
Thank you both!
Vanessa Gebbie
