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Author talk featuring Joanne Zarrillo Cherefko

Author talk featuring Joanne Zarrillo Cherefko In-Person

Join us for Joanne Zarrillo Cherefko's Book Launch Party as she speaks about her most recent release, "Souls Tilled Like Soil."

Registration recommended; not required.

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Raised in Middletown, New Jersey, Joanne Cherefko has spent her adult life in public education, from teacher to administrator to school board member to volunteer teacher, instilling a love and understanding of literature, especially poetry.  She is an award-winning educator, inducted into Wall Township Foundation for Educational Excellence Hall of Fame in 2001, awarded the Front Royal Warren County Chamber of Commerce Education Contributor honor in 2011, and award the Medallion of Recognition by Lord Fairfax Community College in 2019.

She began writing poetry as a young girl and created her most complex, angst-ridden poetry after experiencing a grave personal loss.  Her first two collections, A Consecration of the Wind and Fragmented Roots, expose the demons from her past and reflect her journey toward emotional and psychological healing. Souls Tilled Like Soil was inspired by the author's fear and isolation which the pandemic and racial/political divide created and which only love and nature could ameliorate.

Since 2007, she has been creating and presenting poetry seminars at Mountain Vista Governor's School and local high schools in Virginia.  In the winter and spring of 2021, she conducted her first two series of virtual poetry seminars for students at MVGS.

She enjoys researching challenging poets such as Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop in order to formulate through-provoking questions that lead students to a critical analysis of poems they would otherwise never read, understand, or appreciate.

Joanne's hobbies are collecting and listening to music; photography; cuddling with her dogs Taylor ad Bella; and growing old with the love of her life, her devoted husband Bud.

Date:
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Community Room (Split Room)
Categories:
  Book & Author Talk  
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