Joan Kwon Glass
Joan Kwon Glass is a poet who is (mostly!) embracing middle age. Her full-length poetry collection, Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, won the Perugia Press Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & an IPPY Gold Medal & was a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. Joan’s poetry collection, Night Swim, won the Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR, Best American Poetry, Poem of the Week, The Slowdown & Poetry Daily & has appeared in Poetry, Passages North, Terrain, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She is the former Editor in Chief for Harbor Review & has been a poetry editor for West Trestle Review & Rogue Agent. Joan is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence & a visiting writer at colleges such as Amherst College, The New School, Smith College & Wesleyan University. She lives in Milford, CT & has been a public school educator for 23 years.
Student Feedback for Joan
Joan Kwon Glass is a phenomenal poet and an equally wonderful teacher. I got a tremendous amount of out her carefully developed workshop around a difficult but important topic (difficult family relationships). She provides excellent and extremely well-organized materials that include a rich array of poems, prompts and poetic resources that can be used again and again to help deepen your poetry craft. Her insights and I generated many new poems during the workshop, many of which are extremely promising and that I feel proud of. Do not hesitate to sign up for one of her workshops. Lisette A.
Joan is an incredibly kind, welcoming, and supportive teacher. Her classes are deeply engaging and well researched, and she introduces her students to a wide variety of poets and new and important work. Her generative prompts are inspiring, and she offers thoughtful and brilliant insight into work created in class. Jill K.
Joan encouraged us all to think deep and write quickly which always produces inspired results but can be difficult to do. She is a master! Her attention to detail gave us so many ideas and corners in which to create and likewise the poetry read and shared –and a class with an equally lovely guest poet– left me eager to write more, more, more! Thanks to Joan for a class where I kept producing, thinking, exploring. I will return to this experience again. Laura D.
