A luscious month-long fall 2022 residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts will let me to focus on revisions to the draft of my memoir, What Were the …
“Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices”
A rare opportunity for beginning and experienced writers who love to write and create in community! This tranquil 4-day 3-night …
“Writing Creativity.” Fall 2020, six-session writing class. For information click here. To register free, click here. Wednesdays September 2 and 16; October 7 and 21; November 4 and 18 at 5pm …
JoAnn will teach a workshop in revision while in residence at Write On Door County writers center and writing retreat.
I am so happy to have a poem in this beautiful anthology, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience. I’m reading at the DC launch March 15! …
Cathy Carter invited me to read a poem from my book and chat about National Poetry Month last week, on a spot called “Arts Playlist” that aired last weekend. The …
The Brandywine Hundred Writers Conference will be held on Saturday September 13th from 10:00am to 4:00pm at the Brandywine Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The conference offers six workshops on the …
On the first Mother’s Day I have spent alone in some 30 years of mothering, I took a long morning walk to the spring-fed turquoise waters of Calanques de Cassis.
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celebrates the house of our longings, our memory and our hopes. That house is filled
with real people, imperfect, living among frogs, herons, and muskrats, watching the moon and stars, …
Can I know my father in retrospect? Can I know my father by making up his life?
I need time to think about this question, with my pen in my …