Joanne Clarkson’s fifth poetry collection, “The Fates,” won Bright Hill Press’ annual contest and was published in 2017. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Western Humanities Review and Beloit Poetry Journal. She received an Artist Trust Grant to complete her manuscript and an NEH grant to teach poetry […]
Joanne Clarkson
Joanne Clarkson: Recurrent Dream of Cathleen
You call from the city of your passing, the city of our birth, with news of common souls. Sending gifts I never dare to open. My hand me-down sister who lived for only a month, just enough time to make a woman. Favoring our mother the way I wear our father’s genes. You […]