News from Delaware: JoAnn Balingit
JoAnn Balingit with the Rhode Island Poet Laureate, Lisa Starr, in New Hamsphire for the Poetry & Politics conference
JoAnn Balingit, poet laureate of Delaware, reports that her newest chapbook, Forage, is now available from Wings Press as a hand-sewn edition and in ebook editions. http://joannbalingit.org/2011/books/forage/
She also shared news that the Delaware Division of the Arts has sponsored her local branch of the National League of American Pen Women to become an affiliate of the Alliance of Young Artists and Writers. “Thus we can revive the Delaware Scholastic Writing Awards in 2012, to recognize Delaware’s talented 7th through 12th grade writers with awards and possible scholarships.” See more on this at http://www.artandwriting.org/ORG/AffiliatePages/Show/DE001W
