Writing
After I spent nearly a decade writing and revising poems on my lunch hour, I earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. My poems have been published in local and national literary journals. I have also written for newspapers and other publications. Some of my work is below.
Selected Work
“Tennessee School Board Denies Students Valuable Classroom Lessons by Banning ‘Maus.’” (The Tennessean, 2022.)
“Poet, Try.” (in CREDO, An Anthology of Manifestos and Creative Writing Handbook, 2018.)
Italian Lessons (Finishing Line Press, 2014.)
“A Wish for better Education in Washington State.” (The Seattle Times, 2013.)
“Time for a Sports Levy to Support Education.” (The Seattle Times, 2009.)
“My Husband Explains Light Years to our Ten-Year-Old Daughter.” (Originally published in Poet Lore, Vol 106:2/3.)
“In Which My Daughter Chooses a Piece of Fruit.” (Read by Woodzick; originally published in CALYX, Vol. 26:3.)
“Remembering JFK and a Special Speech.” (The Boston Sunday Globe,1992.)
SUPPORT MY WRITING BY PURCHASING MY CHAPBOOK
Italian Lessons
My poetry chapbook includes meditations on family, food, opera, and visual art, through the lens of my Italian heritage.
In Christine Johnson-Duell’s deft hands, Italian Lessons don’t just teach us how to speak. They teach us how to sing, how to go. These poems are hungry but patient, curious and wise, like travelers anticipating well-earned meals that will further confirm what they learned on their journeys: to have a body is to discover the ways one becomes a figure of joy, a keeper of memory, a vessel of sorrow, an instrument of art.
—Kate Lebo, Author of Pie School, The Book of Difficult Fruit, A Commonplace Book of Pie, and co-editor, Pie and Whiskey
MORE OF MY WORK AVAILABLE ON OTHER WEBSITES
The art of writing
I contributed to Credo: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing which you can purchase through Bookshop.org.
I also created a reference resource for creative writers while at Simmons University.
