My French teacher immersed her students in Art: she showed us how to look at Monet, Manet, Rodin, medieval ruins, cathedrals, and much more; we traveled to New York to visit the Frick and the Met. Over lunch, we talked about Art - in French. It was inevitable that some of my poems would be about Art.
Joyce Nower is the author of three books of poetry: Year of the Fires (1983), Column of Silence (2001), and The Qin Warriors and Other Poems (2003), the last two published by Avranches Press. Her poems and articles have appeared in Slant, GR Review, The Evansville Review, Common Ground, Grasslands Review, Taproot, Terminus, The Raven Chronicles, The American Poetry Journal, Andwerve, and Visions International. She has been the recipient of four successive Artists-in- Communities Awards from the California Arts Council, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During June of 1999, she gave lectures on contemporary American poetry at Sichuan Normal University, Shaanxi Normal University, and Yanan University in the People's Republic of China. Currently she writes a poetry column called "Intersections" for the online magazine The Alsop Review.