Biography of Joanne Monte

Joanne Monte is the author of the Korean War novel, 'The Day to Eternity.' She has had her poems published in many literary journals including Poet Lore, The Raintown Review, Cerberus, Ancient Paths Literary Review, Poet, and others. She is the recipient of several awards, most notably, The John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award, The Writer’s Digest Award and the New Millennium Writings Award IV for Poetry. In 2012 she received The Bordighera Poetry Book Prize.

Joanne Monte's Works:

The Day to Eternity
The Blue Light of Dawn (Nov.2013)

At a Sidewalk Cafe

An ordinary morning―
awakening to nothing but daylight
prodding through the eggshell-tinted blinds
and the warm quilts to be tossed back
in which sleepers all over the city
groan, burying themselves deeper
into the sheets of oblivion.

Downstairs, the sidewalk café beckons

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