contemporary opera, baroque music, Brazillian jazz
Movies
Orlando, Once, The Piano, Chinatown
Television
Law and Order
Books
Vivaldi's Virgins, The Master and Margarita, Stirring the Mud, The Lover, Tender Buttons, Two Serious Ladies, Howl
Heroes
Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens
Karren's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Poet, Writer, Journalist
Karren's Schools
University Of Maryland-College Park
College Park, MD
Graduated: 1969
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: French Literature and Language
Minor: American and English Literature
About me: Karren Alenier, A.K.A. the Steiny Road Poet and the Dresser, has published five volumes of poetry including Looking for Divine Transportation, winner of the 2002 Towson Prize for Literature. Her opera Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On with composer William Banfield premiered in New York City in June 2005 by Encompass New Opera Theatre under the stage direction and development by Nancy Rhodes with music direction by John Yaffe.
She is also author of The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, a new book that unfolds the story of opera in American -- how it comes about and the challenges getting it on stage. The Steiny Road Poet, a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Voltaire's Candide, narrates this book. The book is written in a style anyone can read and is lots of fun.
Who I'd like to meet: Barbara Quick, author of Vivaldi's Virgins, and other litterati, composers, visual artists, dancers, and philosophers. Also anyone who has a spark for the spoken word.
