This collection of poetry addresses the nature of time, reflections on the natural world, the difficulty of loss,
contemporary social issues and gratitude for life.
Kathleen Keena is a Connecticut Licensed Professional Counselor and Connecticut Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She was Clinical Director of a dual diagnosis outpatient,New Directions, of Enfield,Connecticut. Her first book, Adolescent Depression (2005) explored issues of depression in the developing adult.
Additionally, she taught theater and creative writing at Manchester Community College and directed plays,which her husband Clark
Bowlen produced, with student casts. This inspired the writing of her second book, The Play's the Thing (2015) which takes the reader backstage to the creative collaboration of director, actors and audience.
She holds a Masters degree in English Literature from Central Connecticut and another Masters' degree in Counseling from Saint Joseph University. She was selected as one of ten playwrights to be produced at Keane University on issues of family caregiving.
Excerpt
Floating off to sleep,
words release like baby teeth,
and all around this sacred space
love fills what language
shall erase.
I can be a sheet of paper,
flying in the breeze.
I can be the darkness
or the underground,
before sleep.
Riding on waves
of wordless dreams
language lives in night sky
all unseen.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
