Josephine LoRe, Poet

a pearl in this diamond world …

Josephine LoRe has been invited to read her poetry live in Canada, the US, Italy, France, and Ireland. In addition, she participates in zoomrooms across the world. Her words have been put to music, danced, and integrated into paintings and visual art. She has five collections, Unity, three bestsellers, The Cowichan Series, In My Father’s House, and The Moon and All Her Faces, and Late to the Sky, a new collaboration with poet Charles S. Cobean which is being received with high acclaim.

A first-gen Canadian, Josephine’s mother tongue is Sicilian. She writes in English, Italian, and French. Her poems have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in fifteen countries and five languages, including Farsi and Spanish. She has been thrice nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Poetry Prize. Her poem The Tea Set was shortlisted for the Room Poetry Prize, and her poem Enough was selected for a multiple prize-winning Public Service Announcement video by Feed the Children in the US.

She serves on the Executive Board of Members of the Single Onion, Calgary’s longest-running poetry reading series. This year, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Calgary’s Bow Valley Ranche Historical Society, and in that role will be bringing one themed poetry event each season to Fish Creek Provincial Park.

She believes poetry can bring peace and understanding to the world, one beautiful and painful word at a time.

Learn more at www.JosephineLoRePoet.com