photo credit: Bill Mackey

Summer 2015 Newsletter
Karla's award-winning book, now in its 3rd printing, written during her journey through breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and survival.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

is Coming


Next month is breast cancer awareness month, and Karla will be the keynote speaker at several events to support, honor and encourage those with cancer, including Baylor's Sammons Cancer Center's Annual Breast Cancer Survivorship Celebration in Dallas October 9th and at the 2nd Annual On Butterflies Wings Tea at White Rock Lake in Dallas October 23rd.
Karla is a two-time cancer survivor (breast cancer and, more recently, colon cancer). Through her book Redefining Beauty and her speaking engagements, Karla offers readers and audience members hope, comfort and laughter through her intimate candor, good-humored defiance and unfiltered honesty.
In a front page article titled "Making Pink Lemonade" in the Denton Record-Chronicle last year, Morton told reporter Lucinda Breeding: "Emotionally, it has totally changed me. My tolerance for pettiness is pretty nonexistent. When you go down to hell and have a fistfight with the devil, you learn. What matters is love. Family. It’s about finding joy in every little thing.”
Buy Redefining Beauty on Amazon.com.
Recipes, poems and essays by 11 Texas Poets Laureate

NEWS!


Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate

This wonderful new book, published by Texas Review Press, is now out! It features poems, essays and favorite recipes (with color photos) by 11 of the state’s Texas Poets Laureate, including Karla.


Awards

Karla's 10th book, Constant State of Leaping, was recently selected for several awards:
Click here to purchase a copy of Constant State of Leaping.  

On the Radio

You can listen to a recording of Karla's live radio interview from June on Austin's 91.7 FM KOOP. A special thank you to Writing on the Air team - Karla had a GREAT time! 

Book Karla to Speak

Want to book Karla as a keynote or guest speaker at your event? Click here for a speaker request form. Click here for Karla's speaker one-sheet.

Appearance Schedule
Karla's speaking schedule this September and October include the following events:
  • Granbury, TX – September 9-12 – Langdon Review Weekend (speaking Wed night & Fri afternoon)
  • Dallas, TX – October 9 – Keynote speaker at Baylor's Sammons Cancer Center's Annual Breast Cancer Survivorship Celebration
  • Denton, TX – October 22 – Reading and book sigining at TWU
  • White Rock Lake in Dallas – October 23 – Keynote speaker at 2nd Annual On Butterflies Wings Tea
If you are interested in booking Karla to speak at your event, conference or university, please click here for a speaker request form or click here for Karla’s speaker one-sheet.You can also watch a video to learn more.
Morton and Birkelbach's touring photography/poetry exhibit

No End of Vision - Touring Exhibit


No End of Vision: Texas as Seen by Two Laureates: This touring exhibit is a unique, ekphrastic effort combining black and white photos from Karla's portfolio with poems (inspired by her photos) written by 2005 Texas Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach. The collection has exhibited at various venues in Texas, including the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History and the Meadows Gallery at the Center for the Visual Arts in Denton. To learn more or book the exhibit, click here.
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