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  • Information Overload

    March 15, 2020
    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!

    So, I’m taking this opportunity to jot down or type up a few thoughts that I may expand on at a later time. Please note that there is a sense of humor imbued in several of these thoughts; in others there is a sense of wonder. I’m employing “hmmmm..” as often as I can.

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  • Taking Care

    December 8, 2019
    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 shock for me was that I’d forgotten about the event altogether. I had instead focused on what I needed at the time. 

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  • Learning Experiences, Teachable Moments

    October 13, 2019
    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 first time I saw the new NP at my primary care physician’s office several months ago, she talked to me as if I didn’t know what digital or virtual meant. “I teach online courses, honey,” is what I wanted to say to her as I sat in a chair facing her and later in…

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  • I’m here!

    August 9, 2019
    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!

    Sorry that I’ve been away for so long. I am here and I promise to post something with a little more gravitas really soon. See you then! And by the way, those are not my hands in the photo (you weren’t fooled, were you?)  

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  • Essay in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly

    March 23, 2019
    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!

    So excited that my essay has been published in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly, the SAQ!

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  • Poetry at the Bette Tonight

    February 9, 2019
    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!

    Saturday, February 9, 2019 7-9 pm Featuring Joyce Young, Judy Juanita and Will Preston Poetry and Prose Frank Bette Center for the Arts 1601 Paru Street Alameda, CA 94501 https://www.frankbettecenter.org/featured-poets.html https://www.frankbettecenter.org/poetry-at-the-bette.html

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  • Upcoming Readings

    February 2, 2019
    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!

    Saturday, February 2, 2019 – TONIGHT! 7-9 pm Nomadic Press First Saturday Showcase Featuring Mk Chavez, Joyce Young, Melissa Jones. Music by Nick Stephens Oakland Peace Center 111 Fairmount Ave Oakland, CA 94611 Facebook Event Page Saturday, February 9, 2019 7-9 pm Featuring Joyce Young Poetry and Prose Frank Bette Center for the Arts 1601…

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  • Reading in the Rain

    January 20, 2019
    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!

    Surrounded by books, writers and an appreciative audience was wonderful. Kimi Sugioka, Sara Mumolo, Joseph Lease took us on journeys of the heart and mind. What teachers and students need in public education, motherhood, loving friendship interrupted by death, and the wisdom of lizard in the face of law enforcement were some of the journeys…

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  • Lyrics & Dirges at Pegasus Bookstore Downtown Berkeley on Wednesday 1/16/19

    January 14, 2019
    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’ll be reading at Lyrics & Dirges on Wednesday 1/16 with Sara Mumolo Joseph Lease Kimi Sugioka Mia Ruiz Wednesday, January 16, 2019 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California 94704 (510) 649-1320 Pegasus Books Downtown Berkeley

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  • Thank You – November Readings

    November 9, 2018
    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 want to thank those of you who have come out to support me at the Nomadic Press book launch in September and at the readings in October at Pandemonium Press at The Octopus Literary Salon, Literary Speakeasy at Lit Crawl, and the Bay Area Writing Project at Expressions Gallery. And a big, hearty thank you…

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Joyce E. Young

Writer and Teacher

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