by joannezc | Nov 4, 2018 | My poetry, Reading poetry
While I wait for the paperback version of my debut collection of poems to be released, I have been having some fun promoting my poetry and poetry in general. Last spring I was invited to speak to some students at the Montessori School in Front Royal. Earlier this...
by joannezc | Jun 28, 2018 | Poetry review, Reading poetry, Thoughts
Did you ever think of drawing a straight thematic line from a passage in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge? As every reader of Coleridge knows, his poem is a fragment of the several hundred lines he had composed in his...
by joannezc | Jun 25, 2018 | Poetry review, Reading poetry, Thoughts
A theme that courses through the poems in The Art of Darkness section of my book is the desire to decreate myself, to experience a “soft retreat of senses/And a slow dance to/Self and lessness.” In “Prelude,” I write of my “discovery/And subsequent/Shedding of...
by joannezc | May 20, 2018 | Reading poetry
Through my junior high and high school years, my poems were very religious, reflecting my strict Catholic upbringing. My senior year creative writing teacher pointed that fact out to me after reviewing my portfolio. She also ridiculed one of my religious poems in...
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