A Down-To-Earth Organization That Is All About Hope
A Down-To-Earth Organization That Is All About Hope
Karla K. Morton, the 2010 Texas Poet Laureate, is a Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters and a graduate of Texas A&M University. Described as “one of the most adventurous voices in American poetry,” she is a Betsy Colquitt Award Winner, twice an Indie National Book Award Winner, Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner and the North Texas Book Award Festival Winner. Morton is the recipient of the Writer-in-Residency E2C Grant and has ten books of poetry. She is widely published, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, is a nominee for the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and established an ekphrastic collaborative touring exhibit titled: No End of Vision: Texas as Seen By Two Laureates, pairing photography with poetry.
Morton’s work has been used by many students in their UIL Contemporary Poetry contests, and was featured with seven other prominent authors in 8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry of the American Southwest (from Baskerville Publications), which is now part of the SMU teaching curriculum. Her tenth book, Constant State of Leaping (from Texas Review Press), features the amazing cover art of artist Donna Howell-Sickles. She is a butterfly lover and a two-time warrior against cancer, with her book, Redefining Beauty, chronicling her battle from diagnosis, chemo and radiation and recovery now in its third printing.
