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I'll be teaching a writing workshop at Nido Durham on Saturday afternoons March 11th to April 15th.  Enrollment is limited to 8 particip...

1. My son, almost four, asked me what happens after people are buried in the cemetery.  As gently as possible, I suggest that their bodi...

source: MoMA I've been thinking a lot about William Kentridge's work lately. I saw a Kentridge exhibition at MoMA in 2010...

1.  My son called 911 this morning (again).  He was supposed to be listening to his Ramona audiobook on headphones so I could sleep for a...

What is there to say?  Dread.  Resistance.  Life going on as usual and not at all as usual.  I want a place to say, "Here are some of t...

My new website is up! Visit me at  joannapenncooper.net . Also, there are spaces left in my six-week Reading and Writing from Life worksho...

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...