Joanne Clarkson will be a featured poet at Creative Colloquy’s First Day of Spring, Happy Birthday event on Monday, March 20 at 7 p.m. The celebration will be held at B Sharp Coffee House, 706 Opera Alley in Tacoma. Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall will headline and MC the reading which includes 5...Read More »
I will be reading from my new poetry collection, "The Fates," at Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell, New York on June 22! This is part of their Word Thursday series. Bright Hill Press awarded my book first prize in their annual competition. I am so excited to share my poems about fortune and free...Read More »
A celebration of my new award-winning poetry volume: "The Fates" is happening on Saturday evening, July 29th, 6:30 p.m. at Orca Books, 509 E. 4th Ave. in downtown Olympia. As the title suggests, the book is organized around the Three Sisters from classical mythology who ruled the lives of humans: spinning the thread of life,...Read More »
Joanne will read and recite poems from her new book "The Fates" about noon on Sunday, August 6, the day of the Grand Opening of the Point Ruston Farmer's Market. Joanne feels honored to share a table with memoirist E.C. Murray from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. where she will be available to talk about her...Read More »