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In
1998, Joanne created the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program,
which she has coordinated and produced for the past 10 years.
The competition, its related readings, and poetry and awards
event (featuring a celebrity poet with a national reputation),
comes to it's successful fruition in April, National Poetry
Month. |
Please
visit www.joanneleva.com
for more information.
Joanne volunteers her time to coordinate and lead poetry workshops,
festivals, and poetry slams within the community. Her poetry
series, Poetry Forus, at Barnes and Noble in Jenkintown, North
Wales, and Willow Grove, met monthly for 15 years, spotlighting
a featured poet from the region and concluding with an open
reading for newer poets.
As an active poet herself, Joanne has been writing and performing
her original poetry since 1991. She currently works with Percussionist,
John Mosemann, to bring the Poetry & Percussion performance
series and workshop to creative writing students of Montgomery
County and the surrounding Philadelphia area. She has also
organized poetry readings at Headhouse Square for Earth Day,
the Seven Arts Fest on South Street, the Theater of Living
Arts (TLA), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Joanne has performed in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival highlighting
cuts from her CD, "A
Journal of True Confessions". Her poems have been
published in The American Poetry Review, The Schuylkill Valley
Journal, The Mad Poet's Review, The Bucks County Writer, among
others.
Joanne holds a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design from Arcadia
University (formerly Beaver College). |
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