Invitation to be a guest artist on her website is something the Steiny Road Poet does to promote other poets and to keep her website vital. Usually, she asks poets for permission to feature a short poem with short lines. However, for the month of April 2025, she asked Diana Tokaji to allow an excerpt from a long poem which also had some long lines. Her website format is not so flexible. Nonetheless, she was profoundly moved by the poetry (and prose) Diana had sent her and felt her words bore witness to the difficult times we are enduring.
I was also moved by her Facebook post that reads as follows:
In the kindest way, Karren Alenier occasionally invites fellow poets as guest artists on her
site. This month I was so honored, an act that seems especially generous in an
ever creepier world. It's not just the posting that is kind but the way she
goes about it, with enthusiasm and her bright aesthetic in play. She read both
of my books and expressed that Conversation 4 in SURVIVING ASSAULT especially
speaks to these times, as it both empathizes with and asks us to rise above
despair. Create Courage is the theme of that chapter - how do we manufacture
courage when we actually don't feel it? She asked me to pull an excerpt out for
this feature, and with hope that it's not too disjointed, that's what I did
...a short offering in the space. My thanks to her for this and multiple ways
she touches and guides the artistic community.
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