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After many years in Pennsylvania, poet JoAnne Growney moved in 2005 to Silver Spring, MD.
JoAnne is available for readings and workshops. (Contact her at wow@joannegrowney.com.) Her most recent reading was BACK HOME in Bloomsburg, co-featured with Janet Locke, at the RIVER POETS reading on December 3 at the Bloomsburg Public Library. She will be at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan on March 13, 2010 for a special art-math-poetry event coordinated by John Sims.
NEW AND EXCITING: BUY THE BOOK ! ! ! JoAnne's chapbook Angles of Light has recently been released by Finishing Line Press. Look for Angles of Light (with its stunning cover by Jessica Baker) at amazon.com or contact JoAnne for a copy.
JoAnne is a collaborative poet who enjoys working with visual artists, musicians, mathematicians, dancers, and other fellow travelers—to create work that transcends the individual. Samples of shared projects are found at this website. Click here for a review and a link to a podcast of JoAnne (and Karren Alenier) reading "math-poetry." JoAnne visited Lewisburg, PA and Bucknell University on Oct. 1 2009 for math-poetry events planned by Professor Lynn Breyfogle and her students.
An important one of JoAnne's current collaborations is with Silver Spring sculptor, Mark Behme; here is a link to a SAMPLE of pairings of JoAnne's poems and Mark's enigmatic figures (which were featured at Cafe Muse in Friendship Heights on July 6). Recent events also include an exhibit at Touchtone Gallery, August 12-Sept 4 AND a sculpture-with poetry exhibit at the Takoma Park Community Center (through October 21, 2009) On April 16, JoAnne and Mark presented several poem-sculpture pairs at Takoma Park's Third Thursday Poetry series, held in the TP community center and coordinated by Sara Daines and Martin FitzPatrick.
JoAnne is available to teach workshops and offer readings. Please contact her.
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH activity:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 JoAnne and Karren Alenier (both of whom are poets included in Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics) provided an evening of mathematics and poetry at the Carriage House Conference Center of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
ONGOING -- poetry gatherings / classes on chosen Thursday afternoons at Silver Spring Drop-In Center.
For a fine and varied collection of love poems for all occasions, look for STRANGE ATTRACTORS: Poems of Love and Mathematics published October, 2008 by A K Peters, Ltd. JoAnne is coeditor with Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut mathematician and poet). A description of the anthology and list of CONTENTS is available here. STRANGE ATTRACTORS also may be purchased at amazon.com. A lovely addition to any collection--a lovely surprise gift for a favorite mathematician.
In addition to her ongoing interests in math-poetry and ekphrastic poetry, the current CLIMATE CRISIS is one of JoAnne's big concerns. This topic is starting to show up in her poems--though she finds it hard to write about poetically. You can find "Mitigation of Toxins" online (INNISFREE March,2007; scroll to “JoAnne Growney”).
In Silver Spring, JoAnne holds ongoing poetry workshops at the Silver Spring Drop-In Center (where clients recovering from mental illness find support, friendship, and activities). JoAnne has worked with Gateway's Heliport Gallery to plan poetry events that coordinate with gallery exhibits. Click here and scroll down for poems and information about collaborative activities with Heliport Gallery.
Recent activities (2009) for JoAnne include an April 16 reading (featuring sculpture by Mark Behme) with Robin Schafer and Mary Beth Hatem at the Takoma Park Community Center, a March 30 visit to the Montgomery College (Silver Spring / Takoma Park campus) of Dr Francine Jamin, a reading (with E Laura Golberg) on March 8 at the Iota Cafe and participation on a panel on TRANSLATION at the AWP Chicago conference in February. (Panel Moderator was Cass Daglish; Heid Erdrich and Roseann Lloyd also participated).
On January 7, 2009 in Washington, DC at the national Joint Mathematics meetings, several of the anthology poets gathered to read their work from STRANGE ATTRACTORS. MANY THANKS from from reading organizers JoAnne Growney and Doug Norton to these anthology poets who gathered for the reading: Karren LaLonde Alenier, Judith Baumel, Marion Deutsche Cohen, Jennifer Crow, Kathryn DeZur, Sarah Glaz, Bob Grumman, Israel Lewis, Kaz Maslanka, Wilmer Mills, Wendy Mnookin, Kyoko Mori, Deanna Nikaido, Becky Dennison Sakellariou, and John Vieira. Math conference attendees who also offered poems on the reading theme, "Poems of Love and Mathematics." These included Patrick Bahls, Rad Dimitric, Charlotte Henderson, Rosanna Iembo and Ruth Favro.
2008 poetry activities for JoAnne included participation in the Bathroom Poetry Project and in the Exquisite Corpse Exhibit at Silver Spring Gateway’s Heliport Gallery. . An Exquisite Corpse Poetry Reading featured JoAnne along with poets Karren Alenier and Christopher Conlon; Karren's blog shows highlights.
March 20-23, 2008 the 4-day SPLIT THIS ROCK festival of " Provocation and Witness" -- for which JoAnne was a volunteer--happened in Washington, DC. The website www.splitthisrock.org offers information about the living poetry of this exciting event.
OTHER READINGS
September, 2007 JoAnne participated (as enthsiast and featured reader) in the day-long STILLWATER POETRY FESTIVAL along Fishing Creek, north of BLOOMSBURG, PA.
August 2007 JoAnne joined other Pennsylvania poets (Jerry Wemple, Marjorie Maddox, and Barbara DeCesare) anthologized in COMMONWEALTH (a Penn State University Press collection of contemporary Pennsylvania poetry) reading at CAFE MUSE (at Friendship Heights Village Center,sponsored by WordWorks).
Spring 2007 Ongoing events with Gateway's Heliport Gallery30 November 2006 JoAnne considered "math and poetry" with the Math Honor Society at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD.
28 October 2006 EPaDel Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America at West Chester University. Marion Cohen joined JoAnne in a Saturday morning reading of MATHEMATICAL POETRY.
10 October, 2006 for the RIVER POETS Reading Series (Phillips Emporium, 10 East Main Street,Bloomsburg, PA). Two special features of that reading were "Helena's Emporium" and "remembering a backyard spruce."
14 September 2006 at the Nora School in Silver Spring. At the Nora School website are links to videotapes of the participating poets' readings. (Sometimes there may be difficulty with this viewing; Mozilla Firefox browser may work better than Internet Explorer. SCROLL DOWN to the poetry information and click on JoAnne's name.)
* * * * * JoAnne Growney lives in Eastern Village, a co-housing community along the MD-DC border. More information about her neighborhood may be found on the website maintained by the South Silver Spring Neighborhood Association.Born in Indiana County, Christmas-tree capital of the universe, JoAnne studied mathematics at Westminster College (PA), Temple University, and the University of Oklahoma. More recently she earned an MFA from Hunter College in Manhattan. For twenty-five years she lived in Bloomsburg and taught mathematics at Bloomsburg University. She was an active member of the Bloomsburg community, helping to found River Poets and Five & Dime Cultural Center. She has four grown children and seven grandchildren—in California, Maryland, or Virginia.
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A LOVELY LITTLE BOOK
My Dance is Mathematics,
a collection of JoAnne's "mathematical" poems, 2006 from Paper Kite Press .
Print copies are availble from JoAnne and the poems are online HERE .
Recent articles by JoAnne include "Mathematics Influences Poetry" March 2008, JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ARTS (if this link doesn't work for you, request here from JoAnne
and
MATHEMATICS IN POETRY, an article for JOMA, MAA's Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications.
JoAnne's work is featured in two recent anthologies of Pennsylvania poetry: LISTENING TO WATER (2007, Foothills Publishing) and COMMON WEALTH (2005, Penn State Univ. Press)
To exchange ideas about connections among poetry,math,and other arts, please send an e-mail
to JoAnne.
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