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  • Character Development

    November 10, 2014
    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’m writing a novel and my protagonist has been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. So, I am alert to information about the disorder, and I just stumbled on an infographic about it. Here’s the link: http://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/fact-sheet?ref=tc I love it when the research arrives with such ease.

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  • 100Thousand Poets for Change – September 27, 2014

    September 24, 2014
    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’m excited to be part of a global poetry event on this coming Saturday. Around the globe, poets, musicians, artists will be sharing their work in the service of change. Bringing art out into the world collaboratively every hour. Here’s information about the event I’ll be participating in: Backyards: Poets for Local Change 2014 a…

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  • Don’t be that dude: Handy tips for the male academic

    September 4, 2014
    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!

    Originally posted on Tenure, She Wrote: There is a plethora of research on the causes of hostile environments for women in academia, and on why we have an underrepresentation of women in many fields. There are support groups for women, societies entirely devoted to women academics (broadly and field-specific), workshops for women in academia, and…

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  • How to Win the National Poetry Slam

    August 9, 2014
    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 don’t Reblog often, but this post by Kelli Stevens Kane is about much more than Slam Poetry. Enough said. Please read on….

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  • Pandemonium Press Reading Series – 1st Wednesdays

    August 2, 2014
    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 poetry and some fiction with several excellent writers this week, as we kick off a new reading series at a beautiful loft space in Oakland that has great vibes. PANDEMONIUM PRESS READING SERIES 1ST WEDNESDAYS AT SPICE MONKEY 1628 WEBSTER ST, OAKLAND, CA AUGUST 6: HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 7-9 pm featured poets: Sharon…

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  • Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone—An Online Learning Experience – National Writing Project

    July 19, 2014
    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!

    Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone—An Online Learning Experience – National Writing Project. This summer, I decided to hop on board an online course and community of educators led by teachers and authors Cathy Fleischer and Sarah Andrew-Vaughan called the Unfamiliar Genres Project. Their book “Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres” is…

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  • Lyrics & Dirges Tonight at Pegasus Books Downtown

    July 16, 2014
    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 with a stellar lineup of writers this evening at Lyrics & Dirges hosted by the lovely and gracious Sharon Coleman. I’m first up, so get there early or you’ll miss me. Here we are, in reading order: Joyce E. Young Monica Zarazua Joshua McKinney Katayoun Zandvakili Rusty Morrison We’d love to have…

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  • Beast Crawl 2014

    July 14, 2014
    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!

        Had a great time reading at Beast Crawl 2014 last night. The Beast Crawl Collective rocks! Writers Tony Press, Robert Pesich, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, and yours truly took the stage and held the audience rapt with our wordsmithing at Spice Monkey. We worked it, to say the least. I had an absolute blast.…

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  • Broadsides, Anyone?

    July 4, 2014
    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’m in the process of creating a broadside of one of my poems that I plan to gift audience members with at two upcoming readings (I will post about them separately). The broadsides of my own work are a first for me and I’ve had the great fortune to learn more about the history and…

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  • What do our words really mean?

    June 1, 2014
    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 was brought to tears by an essay by the writer Natalie Diaz. She writes of the dilemma that most of us who write and speak face: What do we mean when we say or write _______? However, those of us who are monolingual don’t have much to compare our language limitation(s) to. Diaz is…

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Joyce E. Young

Writer and Teacher

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