Won't you join us for an inspiring imaginative and FUN late afternoon early evening creative exploration?
Free writing workshop begins at 4:24 pm. The PIE* reading and open mic is at 6:15 pm. Our Facebook Even page ready for sharing is here.
Workshop (4:24 pm)
Poetry Inspired by the Tarot: An Intuitive Workshop 2024
Presented by Joanne M. Clarkson, Poet
Ancient, symbolic wisdom guides poets to that creative place where heart, mind and spirit merge. Poet and psychic Joanne M. Clarkson will help participants work from deep intuition in this generative workshop. After briefly explaining the organization and meaning of Tarot cards, she will lead poets in both free-association and more formal exercises. Hand-outs on the Poetry-Tarot connection will be provided. No experience with Tarot is necessary and writers of all levels are welcome.
Our PoetyIsEverything (*PIE) reading and open mic will feature Joanne and Sandy Yannone! There will also be an open mic. It begins at 6:15 pm!
BIOS
Joanne Mokosh Clarkson's sixth poetry collection, "Hospice House," was released by MoonPath Press in 2023. Her volume, “The Fates,” won Bright Hill Press’ annual contest and appeared in 2017. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including “Purr and Yowl: An Anthology of Poetry About Cats” and “I Sing the Salmon Home” recently.
Clarkson worked for many years as a professional librarian before re-careering as a Registered Nurse focusing on Hospice care. She has written a memoir about her nursing years called, “There’s Always a Miracle.”
Besides writing poetry, Clarkson reads palms and Tarot cards, taught as a child by her grandmother, a professional psychic. Her newest book is “Psychic Palmistry: A Tool for Intuition,” Black Triangle Press, 2024. She lives in Port Townsend, WA, with her husband, James.
Sandra Yannone grew up near the edge of the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island Sound in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Her interest in the Titanic disaster of 1912 sparked a dialogue with Ireland, the country where Titanic was built (Belfast) and her last port of call (Cobh, formerly Queenstown), as well as with other international sites connected with the disaster.
Her poems, book reviews, and articles have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Sweet, SWWIM Every Day, Naugatuck River Review, The Blue Nib, Live Encounters, Impossible Archetype, Women's Review of Books, Lambda Literary Review and Seattle Review. Her poem “Requiem for Orlando” appeared in Pulsamos: LGBTQ Poets Respond to the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, a special online edition of Glass: A Journal of Poetry in August, 2016. She has written numerous articles about the intersections between poetry and social justice for the monthly newspaper Works in Progress. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and an AWP Intro Award. Her poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net.
Yannone's debut collection Boats for Women was published by Salmon Poetry in 2019. Her second collection,The Glass Studio, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.
She currently hosts Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Sundays on Facebook via Zoom, www.facebook.com/groups/685251748906097, and monthly for The Collectibles Lesbian Trading Card Reading Series with Headmistress Press.
She earned her B.A. in writing and literature from Wheaton College (MA); an M.F.A. from Emerson College; and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, she is a Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.