Joanne DeTore

Joanne L. DeTore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she teaches literature and communication courses. Her poems appear in various journals, including Reed Magazine, where she was a finalist for the Edwin Markham Poetry Prize, Voices in Italian Americana, and Beyond Words, and more than a dozen others. The poems are a part of a new collection about her recent cancer treatment and recovery.

Crocus in Spring

By Joanne DeTore / September 13, 2025

I stand barefoot in the center of cow parsley and bride’s laceskimming my cut-off jean shorts,frayed […]

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