Janet Cannon has been writing poetry since she was very young. However, she never showed her work to anyone back then. After she graduated from high school she wrote occasional poems for close friends and typically, they were the only people who saw those poems.
At the University of Iowa where the famed International Writers' Workshop is located, Janet continued to write poems, but never showed her work to anyone or told anyone that she wrote. Some of her friends were poets studying at the Writers' Workshop, while Janet studied psychology in undergraduate school and visual art in graduate school.
After graduate school, Janet moved to Berkeley where she started reading and singing her poems acappella in public. She studied the master poets extensively, wrote volumes of poems, and started sending her poems out for publication with some success.
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Since then, Janet has continued to write poems, and read and/or sing her poems/songs at various venues throughout the United States. She has organized and coordinated poetry reading series, and hosted poetry readings in California and New Mexico. Janet has also lead poetry workshops for children and adult writers from California to New York.
When she moved to Taos, New Mexico, Janet organized a poetry reading that brought together local writers and that lead to the creation of Crow Call Press. The Crow Call writers became a lively, grassroots literary group that published poetry magazines and poemphlets, and sponsored readings. During that time in Taos, Janet also hosted a weekly poetry radio show on KXRT FM.
In New York City, Janet taught herself how to play the Omnichord, and in the early-nineties she performed extensively in New York City on the music scene as The Group Janet—a solo act. Now Janet plays the Q-Chord and accompanies herself as she sings her poems/songs at a variety of performance spaces.
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G.W. Review (Vol. 8, No. 1), The George Washington University, "interlude"; Helicon Nine (Numbers 14 and 15), "vietnamese girl"; The Berkeley Poetry Review (Number 20), University of California / Berkeley, "after all"; Beatitude 33: Silver Anniversary, "last year's lover"; Connecticut River Review (Vol. 8, No. 1), Connecticut Poetry Society, "the neighbor"; New Mexico Humanities Review (Vol. 1, No. 2), New Mexico Tech, "two candles"; Passaic Review (Numbers 7 and 8), "learning to walk these streets"; San Marcos Review, "fantasy"; Croton Review (Number 9), Croton Council on the Arts, "inside the silhouette"; Peace or Perish: A Crisis Anthology, "portrait of a nuclear family"; Southwest Heritage (Vol. 11, No. 1), "town voyeur"; Rio Grande Writers Association Newsletter, "ode to a window washer"; Long Shot (Volume 11), "we'll call him joe doe"; Potato Eyes (Number 1), "would-be friend"; Long Shot (Volume 8), "facing it", "hattie", "cafe tacoma"; Rochester Peace and Justice Education Center (Number 154), "jellyfish hail!"; Nowhere, "bonus" "after all"; Nada Poems, "warning", "maria", "in lieu of a photo of new york", "a monday night", "a matter of difference", "not to forget"; Exit 13 (Number 1), "travels"; Waterways (Vol. 8, No. 10), "from the 5th story"; Sub Rosa (Numbers 14 and 15), "the pigeon"; Slant (Volume 1), University of Central Arkansas, "someone's child"; Long Shot (Volume 5), "x-queries the archbishop", "x-romantic", "what they're saying"; OrmFaer / Quarterly Review of Poetry (Vol. 1, No. 1), "as if"; Open 24 Hours (Number 5), "this is not India"; Long Shot (Volume 4), "the neighbor" "some inner city teens", "indecision"; Howling Dog (Vol. 2, No. 2 and 3), "after all", "someone's child"; ByLine (Number 77), "misidentity"; Waterways (Vol. 6, No. 7), "warning"; Wheelhouse Magazine, "today at dinner time"; the Kerf, College of the Redwoods, "the primrose";
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Stroker (Number 30), "six thirty sharp"; Planet Detroit Magazine (Number 6), "sloppy noises", "the party"; Earth First, "rush hour"; Big Scream (Number 20), "warning", "this is not India"; Stroker (Number 28), "learning to walk these streets" "six thirty sharp"; Long Shot (Volume 3), "leaving iowa city: being cool!" "we all know"; Big Scream (Number 18), "in lieu of a photo of n.y.c." "an understanding"; New Blood (Number 10), "san geronimo: taos pueblo", "the pretenders"; New Blood (Number 4), "maria", "monogamy vs. polygamy"; Long Shot (Volume 2), "a matter of difference", "burned-out", "worms", "nervous", "a barking", "magpie"; Big Scream (Number 16), "a matter of difference", "a monday night", "san geronimo day: taos pueblo", "not to forget"; Smithereens Seasonal Sampler (Vol. 1, No. 1), "a monday night"; New Voices: Rebirth of Artemis (Number 1), "maria"; Blaketimes (Number 2), "midday telegram"; Pastiche (Vol. 2, No. 5), "spoken for"; Again, "not to forget"; Southwest Heritage (Vol. 10, No. 2), "summer children"; Snippets (Vol. 1, No. 8), "isolated woman"; Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange (Number 9), "two candles" "act 32-scene 32-take 32"; Plumbers Ink (Vol. 2, No. 2), "august morning" (in 3-voices); Plumbers Ink (Vol. 2, No. 1), "elegy to displaced persons", "worms", "ode to my lover", "the last talk", "fresh cut green beans", "tossed salad neighbors" (Featured Poet); New Mexico Independent (Vol. 83, No. 32), "good luck charm"; The Margarine Mapole Orangoutang Express (Number 38), "going home"; Plumbers Ink (Vol. 1, No. 4), "so what else is new"; Crow Call, "act 32-scene-32-take 32"; Taos News, "taos mud"; Crow Call (Vol. 1, No. 1), "from behind my lace curtains"; Power Ball (Vol. 4, No. 1), "powell street spring"; Poemphlet, "under my skin"; Big City Ball (Vol. 3, No. 2), "city poem"; Shades of Herself, "is it a drawing?", "the woman in me"; Ball, "birth-mare"; Plexus, "welfare".
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Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM; Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA; St. Mark's Church, New York, NY; Norfolk Arts Center, Norfolk, NE; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Naropa Institute Assembly Hall, Boulder, CO; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX; New York Public Library (Jefferson Branch), New York, NY; New College, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; Harwood Library, Taos, NM; Cody's Books, Berkeley, CA; Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO; Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY; Lawson and the Arts, Cable TV, Channel 25, San Francisco, CA; Image Theater, New York, NY; Kimo Theater
, Albuquerque, NM; The Intersection, San Francisco, CA; Amos Enos Gallery, New York, NY; Noel Fine Art, Bronxsville, NY; Weeds, Chicago, IL; KXRT FM Radio, Taos, NM; The Melody, New Brunswick, NJ; Unison Learning Center, New Paltz, NY; Old Spaghetti Factory, San Francisco, CA; Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ; Open City Poetry Congress, San Francisco, CA; Grand Piano, San Francisco, CA; Dram Shoppe, Taos, NM; Brillig Books, Boulder, CO; Simpatica, Albuquerque, NM; Central Torta, Albuquerque, NM; Las Palomas, Taos, NM; Sheep's Head, Iowa City, IA; Taos Community Auditorium, Taos, NM; Boardwalk Restaurant, Taos, NM; Carlson-Black Gallery, Taos, NM; Outside-In, Santa Fe, NM; Stables Gallery, Taos, NM; First Majority Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA; The Pyramid, San Francisco, CA; Books Unlimited, Berkeley, CA; Neither/Nor, New York, NY; Darinka, New York, NY; The Roxy, New Brunswick, NJ; The Siren, Albuquerque, NM; The Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ; Downtown Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM; Cafe Bustelo, New York, NY; At the Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Brazos Bookshop, Austin TX; Cloud House, San Francisco, CA; Juliette's Tea Shop, San Francisco, CA; La Salamandra, Berkeley, CA; Oura Art Gallery, Dallas, TX; Spirit Runner Gallery, Taos, NM; Taos Gallery, Taos, NM.
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READINGS/
PERFORMANCES
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POETRY AWARDS
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Rio Grande Writers Association
— > FIRST PLACE, Traditional verse: "ode to a window washer"
- Rio Grande Writers Association
— > HONORABLE MENTION, Mini-muse Poetry Contest: "isolated woman"
- Bless Me, Anima (at the Kimo Theater)
— > POETRY PRIZE: "who woman chant" (NM Arts grant to PAC).
PUBLISHED CHAPBOOKS
- percipience, Cross Cut Saw Unltd.
- the last night in new york, Homeward Press
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LITERARY LISTINGS
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Directory of American Poets and Writers
- Directory of New Mexico Literary Sources
- International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets
- Who's Who in U.S. Writers Editors and Poets
- Vesta's Who's Who of North American Poets
- 2000 Notable American Women
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OTHER LITERARY WORK
— > Radio Host: Poetry Patch—creator & host of a poetry program on KXRT FM (Taos, NM).
— > Editor: Scholastic Books—project editor for the Literacy Place teacher edition textbook (New York, NY).
— > Co-Editor: Crow Call—founder & co-editor of the poetry magazine and published poemphlets (Taos, NM).
— > Editor & Writer: McClanahan and Co.—editor & writer for sections of a teacher edition textbook (New York, NY).
— > Poetry Reading Coordinator: First Majority (FM)—founder & host of poetry reading series at the FM Gallery (Berkeley, CA).
— > Poetry Reading Coordinator: Harwood Library—founder & host of poetry reading series at the public library (Taos, NM).
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| Poetry Workshop, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (featured poet and workshop leader); Poetry Workshop, Northeast Nebraska Community College, Norfolk, NE (featured poet, lecturer, and workshop leader); Oral History Writing Workshop, New York City Public Library, New York, NY (poetry and prose writing teacher at the Chelsea Branch); Poetry Workshop, Hoboken, NJ (guest poet); Poetry Workshop, Taos Middle School, Taos, NM (guest poet); Creative Writing, Taos Day School, Taos Indian Pueblo, Taos, NM (language and creative writing teacher); Poetry & Songwriting, Martin Luther King High School, New York, NY (workshop teacher in the after school program).
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POETRY and
CREATIVE WRITING
TEACHER
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ENGLISH and
ESL TEACHER
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New School for Social Research, New York, NY (taught an ESL course titled "Reading American Writers"); Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY (coordinated an ESL program and taught ESL courses); LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY (taught ESL courses); Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY (taught ESL courses); La Dona Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM (taught an ESL course); District Council 37, New York, NY (taught ESL courses); New York Association for New Americans, New York, NY (coordinated an ESL program and taught ESL courses); Federal Employment Guidance Services, New York, NY (taught a business English class); Liberty High School, New York, NY (taught High School
ESL); Intermediate School #44, New York, NY (taught junior high English); Washington Irving Evening High School, New York, NY (taught a HS English course).
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