A Steady Longing of Flight

Joannie Stangeland’s most recent poetry collection, The Scene You See, looks at art, marriage, and the art of marriage (with some food and wine thrown in, as well as a bit of science). Her previous books In Both Hands and Into the Rumored Spring. are also available from Ravenna Press. In addition,  Joannie’s the author of the pamphlet A Piece of Work and two poetry chapbooks: Weathered Steps and A Steady Longing for Flight, which won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award.

Joannie’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies. Her poems have also traveled on Seattle-area buses.

Joannie has been a Jack Straw Writer and has taught at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House and LiTFUSE. By day, she works as a writer at a software technology company and helps out at the family winery.