Joanie Cappetta

Joanie Cappetta is a poet living in Western Massachusetts. Her poems, writings, and videos have appeared in Little Mirror, TILT, and Tyger Quarterly, among others.

In Lee Mary Manning’s News From Nowhere (2024), one of eighteen photo collages on view in Kiss of the Sun at CANADA, I encounter a pressed flower in a small plastic sleeve, like a tiny greeting card against a sky blue background. Emily Dickinson’s words, accompanying a blossom sent to a dying friend, return to me: “Though it dies in reaching you, you will know it lived, when it left my hand —”.

Lee Mary Manning: Kiss of the Sun

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