I will be reading with fellow Port Townsend poet Terry Persun at the Northwinds Art Gallery in Port Townsend on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 7 p.m. The beautiful art gallery is in downtown Port Townsend at 701 Water Street and the reading space is in the spacious back room. The reading is free, but...Read More »
It’s time to get poems out of drawers and notebooks and computer files and into the world. Whether you have written one poem or a thousand, beautiful words are meant to be shared. Over her many years as a practicing poet and writing teacher, Joanne Clarkson has compiled a list of 50 things to do...Read More »
I am again facilitating the Unity Writers Group. Beginning September 2019, we will meet the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at the Unity Spiritual Center, 3918 San Juan Ave., Port Townsend. The sessions will run 1-3 p.m. in the Hearth Room. You don't have to have participated before and you can write in any genre: poetry,...Read More »
Joanne the Poet will be a guest on "In Conversation," the radio program hosted by respected Port Townsend writer and teacher Sheila Bender, on KPTZ radio. The interview is scheduled for November 19, 2019 at 10 a.m. Joanne will discuss her passion for poetry, her craftsmanship, publication and will read some of her award-winning poems.