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I have made my home in the San Juan Mountains of Ouray, Colorado since 1999 where I write poetry, direct poetry events and write a monthly feature column for the Ouray Plaindealer about life in a small mountain town. Prior to that I taught writing classes at California State University, Los Angeles for over 20 years. Where I live, deer and elk roam, the mountains beckon, and a river whispers from across the fields. Memories of people, the arts, and nature inspire me: I can't really choose between them. I hope my poems and articles show the wonderful complexity and interrelationships of these aspects of human life. I can be reached via email at: bpaulson@ouraynet.com.
My poems have been published or are forthcoming in a number of small magazines: The Climbing Art, Idaho Connections, Clark Street Review, Trestle Creek Review, Herb Network, Buffalo Bones, Mountain Gazette, Hard Row to Hoe, Sunstone, The Kerf, Welcome Home, Writing on the Edge, Tapestries, Mad Blood, Blueline, Shemom, Blind Man's Rainbow, Voicings from the High Country, Advocate, Sweet Annie and Sweet Pea Review, Red Owl, Tributaries, Aethlon, Ruah, Innisfree, The Oak, HeartLodge, Slow Trains, ByLine, Pegasus, Terrain, damselfly, Lyric, and Aurorean.
My poem, "Hollyhocks," was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize by Bev Clark, editor of Sweet Annie Press.
Two collections of my poems, The Truth about Thunder (2001) and The Company of Trees (2004), are available from Ponderosa Press as well as V&S Variety, Buckskin Booksellers, Ouray County Museum, and Wildflower Boutique in Ouray; and Cimarron Books and Coffeehouse in Ridgway
A collection of essays, Uniquely Ouray: Reflections on Life in a Mountain County was published in April 2007. These essays originally appeared in my Ouray Plaindealer column. The book is available from Ponderosa Press as well as V&S Variety, Buckskin Booksellers, Ouray County Museum, and Wildflower Boutique in Ouray; and Cimarron Books and Coffeehouse in Ridgway.
Look for my poems "Life on the Edge" and "Lament" in the anthology, IMPROV, An Anthology of Colorado Poets, Green Fuse Press, Bellvue, CO, 2008
My poem, "Ashes," was published in the anthology, What Wildness is This: Women Write about the Southwest, University of Texas Press, 2007.
My poem, "Weather at 12,000 Feet" received First Prize in the Autumn 2005 Blind Press Poetry Contest.
My poem, "A Square of Winter Light," appears in Crazy Woman Creek, a 2004 anthology of western women writers published by Houghton Mifflin.