Annual Board Retreat brings new energy, new members -- Meet Karen Mondale, new board member
As an ongoing feature, we will introduce a new board member every few weeks. Check back and get to know your SLPC board!
Today, meet Karen Mondale!
KAREN SMEAD MONDALE, long-time community activist and retired educator, is a member of the St. Louis Poetry Center and Loosely Identified, a women’s poetry workshop. She was the Editor of the St. Louis Poetry Center Newsletter from 2005 through 2008, and currently serves as the Private Workshops Planner for the St. Louis Poetry Center. Published in Breathing Out, an anthology released by Cherry Pie Press; the Mid Rivers Review; Flood Stage; and online publications Riehlife and Winning Writers, she won Honorable Mention in the James Nash Poetry Contest in 2007, 2008 and 2010, and was a finalist in the River Styx Poetry Contest in 2007 and 2008. She has given poetry readings in the River Styx series at Duff’s, at Genesis House, the Regional Arts Commission, the Focal Point, Craft Alliance/Kranzberg Arts Center, coffee houses, and for a charity event held in the Forest Park Golf House.
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