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POETRY: "RAPUNZEL," "IN GLASS," and "HUMMINGBIRD," |
JOAN BARANOW grew up in Connecticut, Maryland, and upstate New York, and now makes her home in Mill Valley, California with her husband, poet David Watts.
She finds inspiration from the natural world of the West Coast as well as from the landscapes of her childhood.
Her poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Feminist Studies, The Spoon River Poetry Review, US-1 Worksheets, Western Humanities Review, The Western Journal of Medicine, and elsewhere.
She currently has a poem sequence featured in the online journal Feminism and Nonviolence Studies. She won an Individual Artists Fellowship in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
Joan earned a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.
Her *chapbook, Morning, was published by Radiolarian Press. Living Apart, issued by Plain View Press, is her first full-length book of poetry.
For the past twelve years she has led writing workshops at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation biennial Poetry Festival.
With her husband David she is producing Healing Words, a video documentary on poetry about illness and recovery.
Joan has always loved the music of language. In the creation of the CD Powerful Seeds she finds her own musical voice deepened by the music of jazz.
To order:
Poetry and Jazz
To Visit:
Living Apart
Blackberry Winter
Poetry and Jazz Website
