Happy National Poetry Month to North County & beyond
coming to Poets INC next Sunday April 7th 1pm
Ken Buhr and painter-poet
Karen Moreland
Poet, psychotherapist, priest, philosopher Ken Buhr has spent 48 years in private practice as a Family and Marriage Therapist in north inland San Diego County. He earned a PhD from USC in 1975. Before that, he began a career as a Catholic priest, with a Licentiate in Sacred Theology degree from the Pontificial Gregorian University in Rome in 1963. His duties included serving as a Latin stenographer for the archives of Vatican Council II. Born in L.A. and married for 52 years, he and wife Deanna have four grandchildren from two sons – the oldest died of cancer in 2020 and is the central driver of this collection of poems. A past president of the Rancho Bernardo Chamber of Commerce, and past chairman of the American Cancer Society board in north county San Diego, Ken is a cancer survivor himself.
The Poet appeared in later life, at age 58. A significant voice in regional poetry, he is a regular SDPA contributor; he garnered Finalist Honors in the 2022 Steve Kowit Poetry Awards. Unsure of what’s next in what he refers to as “this awesome multi-layered human life”, he likes to think along the lines of Stanley Kunitz in Layers: “I am not done with my changes”. Find Ken online at gardenoakpress.com/books-2023/ as well as on Amazon at amazon.com/Beautiful-Son-Courage-Ken-Buhr/dp/B0CFCHZNWZ
Submit to Summation !
– Writers are encouraged to submit poetry or
micro-fiction to the annual ekphrastic
Summation Art and Poetry Anthology,
written to and inspired by works of art at the EAP Gallery’s 2023 Summation art exhibition,
see the artworks here online
Send submissions (up to 5 poems in the body of an email, or Word doc if special formatting applies) for consideration to EAPSummation@gmail.com
subject line Summation 2024 – by the May 31, 2024 deadline.
Summation 2022 is available a the EAP Gallery
– for shipping options email EAPSummation@gmail.com
1st Sundays
of the Month 1 to 3pm
Poets, INC (Inland North County) &
THE ESCONDIDO ARTS PARTNERSHIP
host a Literary Series usually on
the first Sunday of every month.
OPEN MIC
Come READ,
any POEMS ok
Though known as a painter in Escondido and San Diego, Karen Moreland’s degrees are in English Literature and Comparative Literature with a minor in art. “I taught creative writing for 20 years at Temecula Valley High School as well as Escondido Adult School. I also taught A P Literature and art. Mostly I write poetry, though a novel is in the works. My writing is in the confessional style from the 60’s and 70’s but not as dark as Sylvia Plath’s. Still, my poems are personal and evocative of experiences from life or reflections and memories of those I have lost or feel a need to conjure up. My paintings are an attempt to hold close places or people, forests and seas. Memories. Sharing my thoughts and images with others is important to me yet I only paint or write what moves me. Sometimes I write about an experience I could not share; something that occurred 40 or more years ago. Pain must percolate slowly through the psyche before it becomes words on the page. My years of teaching English and American Literature influenced me greatly. Writers like Ai, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker or Claude McKay, and Yosef Komunyakaa. All have influenced me. I continue to conjure both in words and paint.”
Pictured above is “Crow on the Doomed Carob Tree” from the December 2023 Summation exhibition at the EAP. You can find Karen online at karenmorelandart.com and at instagram.com/moreland.karen/.
