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Joanna Straughn

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I received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. My first chapbook titled Instinct was released Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press; Treadwell, New York. In 2006, I completed a juried residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska.

Originally from a small town in west Texas, I have also lived in New York and Northern California, a village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. My poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review, and Meridian among others.

About Instinct:Poems

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A bestseller among Small Press Distribution offerings

Stanley Plumly wrote about Instinct:
"Intimacy presupposes a certain innocence. The intimacy in Joanna Straughn's poems sees the small, vital world on the scale of its innocence, with eyes that discipline not only the precision of the detail but the subtlety of its rendering."

Natasha Saje wrote about Instinct:
"Joanna Straughn's poems exist in the liminal, a place of uncommon delicacy and quiet haunting. here is an imagination that describes a robin's egg as 'sky fallen to earth as a hailstone' and conveys 'what a bird is to a flower.' Like watercolors, these poems are filled with sure, yet translucent strokes. 'What good is love that isn't portable?' asks the speaker in one poem, vowing in another poem to 'lie down/In the hearts granary.'"

Joanna Straughn

4/5 ( ratings)
Website
Go to Website
I received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. My first chapbook titled Instinct was released Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press; Treadwell, New York. In 2006, I completed a juried residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska.

Originally from a small town in west Texas, I have also lived in New York and Northern California, a village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. My poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review, and Meridian among others.

About Instinct:Poems

Currently available on Amazon.com

A bestseller among Small Press Distribution offerings

Stanley Plumly wrote about Instinct:
"Intimacy presupposes a certain innocence. The intimacy in Joanna Straughn's poems sees the small, vital world on the scale of its innocence, with eyes that discipline not only the precision of the detail but the subtlety of its rendering."

Natasha Saje wrote about Instinct:
"Joanna Straughn's poems exist in the liminal, a place of uncommon delicacy and quiet haunting. here is an imagination that describes a robin's egg as 'sky fallen to earth as a hailstone' and conveys 'what a bird is to a flower.' Like watercolors, these poems are filled with sure, yet translucent strokes. 'What good is love that isn't portable?' asks the speaker in one poem, vowing in another poem to 'lie down/In the hearts granary.'"

Books from Joanna Straughn

Instinct

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Sugar House Review #1: Fall/Winter '09

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