Joanne Durham is a retired educator who has loved poetry since she devoured the pages of The Golden Treasury of Poetry as a child. Her chapbook, On Shifting Shoals, about life in the small North Carolina beach town where she lives, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. To Drink From A Wider Bowl , winner of the 2021 Sinclair Poetry Prize, is her latest book of poetry.

Joanne was a finalist for the NC Poetry Society’s Poet Laureate Award, the NC State Poetry Contest, and won Press 53’s Prime Number Summer Challenge. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry East, Calyx, Chautauqua, Third Wednesday, Juniper Poetry Journal, Gyroscope, Quartet, Kosmos Quarterly, Front Porch Review, Evening Street Review, Tipton, Verse Virtual, Love in the Time of COVID Chronicles, Rise-Up Review, and Yellow Arrow.When she’s not immersed in poetry, Joanne practices yoga, plays tennis, delights in her grandchildren, and works for a better world for them to grow up in.

Connect with Joannehttps://www.joannedurham.com/
https://www.instagram.com/poetryjoanne/
https://eveningstreetpress.com/book-author/joanne-durham/

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Journal PromptWhat is your earliest memory of poetry? Did you have a favorite poem?

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