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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
This is an enlightening and honoring post about the late bell hooks by writer and educator Opal Palmer Adisa. “I am not a writer who happens to be black. I am a writer who is black and female. These aspects of my identity strengthen my creative gifts. They … WHAT BELL HOOKS TAUGHT ME
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
Here is a link to The Lake County Bloom, which published 3 of my poems this week. Thanks to Lake County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor, Georgina Marie and David Wakefield, Publisher And I love the artwork paired with my poems!
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
The Poetry Tent at Flor y Canto, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, April 2019 The photo above is a reflection on National Poetry Month April 2019, which was filled with poets and poetry, in spaces large and small, and in person. I took part in a reading curated by the indomitable Amalia Alvarez as part…
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
I didn’t know that Toni Morrison had written poems. I found out today, as I was looking for lesson ideas for my students. Here is “Eve Remembering” from the collaborative book Five Poems with illustrations by Kara Walker. https://poets.org/poem/eve-remembering For more Toni Morrison, here are excerpts from an interview from the All Arts Vault: https://allarts.org/programs/all-arts-vault-selects/the-all-arts-vault-toni-morrison-cpc9ku/
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
What does the word “we” mean these days?
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
Yesterday, as I was taking a neighborhood walk in between running errands, I turned the corner on Russell Street at Claremont Blvd. and continued walking downhill. I got about two houses in and heard barking and saw a sudden flash of white out of the corner of my eye. A rather large white dog, a…
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
https://youtu.be/l6vYV79dHCw Jazzmeia’s medley of Afro Blue, Eye See You, and Wade in the Water seem perfect for this moment in time.
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
I woke up yesterday morning with the thought that doing is overrated. I just want to be. The past two days had been insanely overwhelming with work emails, more news about the virus’ spread, deaths, dysfunctional government actions, sincere efforts to work toward our collective health, what’s being underreported, what is missing, extended shelter at…
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
Thinking about taking your writing classes or workshops online? Wordpress has some solutions.
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This is the front cover of my poetry chapbook How It Happens, Nomadic Press (2018). If you’d like to order a copy, send me a message through this site, and I’ll be happy to oblige!
Sundress Publications recently announced this call for those whose AWP Panel were canceled. Deadline for proposals: April 1, 2020
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Joyce E. Young 