Joannie Stangeland and Clare Chu are our two featured readers for Live! PoetryBridge #16 on Wednesday June 15, 2020 starting at 7 PM. An invitation link will be sent to everyone on the PoetryBridge email list. Please email me at info@poetrybridge.net to request being added to the list.
See Featured Poems to read poems they plan on reading.
Joannie Stangeland is the author the collections The Scene You See, In Both Hands, and Into the Rumored Spring, and two chapbooks. She received the 2019 Crosswinds Poetry Journal grand prize, and her poems have also appeared in New England Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals.
Joannie holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. By day, she works as a technical writer, and sometimes she helps out at the family winery.
Clare Chu was raised in Malta and England, and has adopted Palm Springs, CA. as her home. She is an art curator, dealer, lecturer and writer who has authored and published numerous books and academic articles on Asian art.
Her poetry is featured in a continuing collaboration with Hong Kong-based calligraphic and landscape painter, The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat.
Clare is presently working on a collaborative manuscript with the poet, C. W. Emerson. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Sand Dune Teacher was published in June.