A Poet Playing Doctor

A Poet Playing Doctor
126 Pages
ISBN 0692529241

Klawitter’s take on religion is interesting, as a subject that often has people, and writers, on one “side” or the other. But you will also find in these pages a poem built on an experience at a Denver soul food café, a non-apology poem for liking sausage, a poem about his wife eating a pomegranate (“a bloody and laborious affair”), his grandmother in dementia, and a falling snowflake that becomes the occasion for an epiphany. Some are serious, while others verge with a punch on what might delightfully be called ‘heavy light verse.’

—Robert W. King, author of Old Man Laughing and Some of These Days

Daniel Klawitter

About Daniel Klawitter (Denver, Colorado Author)

Daniel Klawitter

Daniel is an award-winning poet based in Denver and the author of five books: A Poet Playing Doctor, Put On Your Silly Pants, Plato Poetica, Quiet Insurrections, and The Trickster: Poems for Very Clever Children & Silly Adults. He is an Honorable Mention Winner in the 2017 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for Children’s Literature and the 2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards for Poetry. In addition, out of approximately 150 entries, his poem -“Lunch at Corafaye’s” - was one of only 11 poems chosen to be paired with a photographic interpretation by artist Sarah Jane Sanders and displayed on exhibit at the Norton Center for the Arts in Kentucky.