by joannezc | Feb 20, 2022 | My poetry, Thoughts
Seventeen days after the first U.S. state went into lockdown, I was suffering from extreme anxiety, and I experienced my first ever five-hour episode of atrial fibrillation and tachycardia. I hadn’t left my house in 20 days, but I was sure I was going to die as a...
by joannezc | May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Why not Bleeding Letters and Fragmented Roots? I based the title of my second book of poetry on a line from the poem, “The Uncoupling,” but the concept of fragmented roots permeates the other poems in the book. First, here’s the poem itself: The Uncoupling As I lie or...
by joannezc | May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
How many of you are old enough to remember the original General Mills 1959 commercial that launched their still-used slogan, “Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids”? Well, I feel like a silly, very old rabbit now, confined to my office, trying to navigate the various social...
by joannezc | Apr 7, 2020 | My poetry, Thoughts
Living with the Coronavirus Curve In an era of the curve, a measurement for the overwhelming number of deaths caused by a rogue virus, it seems appropriate to discuss why poets write about death, grief, and loss, and why readers are drawn to these themes. We all know...
by joannezc | Dec 8, 2019 | My poetry
Images of dust appear throughout my poems, and I often wonder why it is a symbol I love to repurpose in each poem. Then, my brain comes to life, and I realize that T.S. Eliot, my favorite poet, wrote my favorite line of poetry: “I will show you fear in a handful of...
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