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Joanne the Poet - The Poetry of Joanne M. Clarkson

Mar

30

Wound Nurse Poem in HEAL

My poem “Wound Nurse” is now up in the online version of HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature, the literary journal of the College of Medicine at Florida State…Read More »

Feb

15

The Power of Poetry Affirmations

Artistic expression takes not only practice and study, it requires us to keep our mind and spirit in a place of faith and joy. I have long benefitted from repeating…Read More »

Dec

16

What To Do with the Beauty

I was with a group of poets on Zoom recently, talking about how and when we became artists of words. A couple of people found their calling by taking a…Read More »

Oct

09

I Dreamed I Was Writing a Poem

Over the past 3 months, several times in my dreams I have been actively writing a poem. I do not remember ever having dreamed about this before. Each time it…Read More »