Joselow, Beth

Poet and writer Beth Baruch Joselow was born in Washington and raised in Baltimore. The city of Baltimore and the people Beth knew while growing up have heavily influenced her poetry, particularly her early work. She began writing poetry seriously in her 20s. Having settled in Washington in 1970, Beth was part of the Mass Transit Poets in Washington in the early 1970s. This Dupont Circle poetry group held weekly readings, produced five issues of Mass Transit, a poetry magazine, and led to the establishment of Some Of Us Press, which published chapbooks by Michael Lally, Terence Winch, Tim Dlugos, Lynne Dreyer and others. Beth has published poetry, prose and plays, and her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She often has collaborated with artists and musicians, in this country and in Russia. Beth is the author of six books of poetry: Ice Fishing (1974), Gypsies (1978), The April Wars (1983), Broad Daylight (1989), Excontemporary (1993), and Begin at Once (2007). Her chapbook: Self Regard, was published by Chax Press in Tucson, AZ in 2000. She is also the author of Writing Without the Muse, a book of creative writing exercises. Beth has been awarded five grants for creative writing from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her book, Life Lessons: 50 Things I Learned from My Divorce, was published by Avon Books in 1994. Beth was an associate professor teaching writing and liberal studies at The Corcoran School of Art [from 1987 to 2004]. In addition to her Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins she also earned a M.S. degree in Clinical Community Counseling. Beth has a psychotherapy practice in Lewes, Delaware