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Residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

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.

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 …