Karren LaLonde Alenier

Poet, Fiction Writer

US
Email: 
karren@alenier.com
Website: 
www.alenier.com/
Twitter/X: 
@SteinyRoadPoet

Author's Bio

I'm a poet who writes opera libretti. My book The Anima of Paul Bowles (Madhat Press) crosses between poetry, fiction, play-wrighting. These poems inform my libretto What Price Paradise, a project I'm working on with composer Janet Peachey.

I am author of eight collections of poetry, the latest (2021) is how we hold on from Broadstone Books.

I write The Steiny Road to Operadom, a monthly column for the performing arts publication Scene4 Magazine. My opera libretto Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On is published in my nonfiction collection The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Journals:
Crescent Review
,
Jewish Currents
,
Journal of Poetry Therapy
,
MacGuffin
,
Mississippi Review
,
Negative Capability
,
Poet Lore

Poetry

Anthology:
Winners: The Washington Prize (Word Works, 1999)
Books:
The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas (Unlimited Publishing, 2007)
,
Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On (Word Works, 2005)
,
Looking for Divine Transportation (Bunny & Crocodile Press, 1999)
Prizes won: 

2002 Towson Prize for Literature (LOOKING FOR DIVINE TRANSPORTATION)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens
What I'm reading now: 
Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Fluent in: 
French
Born in: 
Cheverly
Raised in: 
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Last update: May 28, 2021