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I will be teaching this six-week writing course at Nido in Durham, NC on Saturday afternoons, February 6th through March 12th.  Join us ...

by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby The way I know reality is conditional is by looking  out the window at the mobile homes parked unde...

(by Todd Colby and Joanna Penn Cooper) None of us gets you. Like a message saying, Stop having regrets-- you'll regret it,  I can...

(Answers to Nine Questions from Sandra Simonds’ Book The Sonnets ) 1 .  There is a six-week-old infant in my lap.  I haven’t yet woken up...

  1 . Six years ago we came to this same landmark.   The sun shone too brightly in our eyes.   A stranger took our picture.  ...

(I'm writing some more dispatches in November.  I won't post all of them, but I will post a few.  Here's one.) An Education ...

by Todd Colby and Joanna Penn Cooper Fridays are always good for me. On Fridays I could be a grifte...

(by Todd Colby and Joanna Penn Cooper) We all wish to awaken on a day like today and just smear unguents, which is a fancy way of saying ...

Then I Saw What the Calling Was All the voices of the wood called “Muriel!” but it was soon solved;    it was nothing, it was not for me. Th...

Eleven More Poems for Poetry Month 1. Thought: "71 poems.  One for each year of my life."  A minute later: "Wait." ...

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As I have done for the last several years, I'm writing a poem a day in April for NaPoWriMo .  This year, my poems are over at Poetrycru...

(For Todd Colby and Jennifer Lazo.) Mostly a person who walked around with a smile plastered on her face would be assumed to have somethin...

(a collaborative poem with Todd Colby)  Certain things will cheer you up: Holding a pencil between your teeth  to make a sort of grima...

1.  "I shall not pass this way again."  --William Penn 2.  A child in white.  A tug on the foot. 3. Boots in the mud, then a b...

by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby Peacock Crossing We have no photographic evidence of our time together, save that one picture of ...

(a collaboration with Todd Colby)   Which world are you staining? It appears blurry. In your frenzy to avoid kitsch, you've render...

"Elephant" is one of the words my 21 month-old son says.  It is also the subject of this poem from my chapbook Crown .  (The ...

Early in our relationship, my college boyfriend Jason compared his affection for me to the last can of gasoline in a Mad Max-like world. ...