Crowds can be interesting, bewildering, scary, and, in small gatherings
great fun, especially writers’ groups …
A GATHERING
they’re holding
a writers’ festival 
on the far side
of the sky
up where sci-fi
western horror
tales hang out
with clouds
of novelists
a mist of poets
free verse
and rhyming
any soul with
pen in hand
laptop computer
and words to spend
is welcome
A
A
A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art. From Inanna Publications, 2016.
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About Joanna M. Weston
Born in England, she lives in British Columbia. She is married with three sons,
Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more...