
Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 1 Fall 2021
Joseph M. Jablonski is a typewriting street poet in addition to being a Listener Poet of The Good Listening Project. As a street poet, he entertains as the “Walking Mall Poet” on the downtown pedestrian mall of Winchester, Virginia and beyond. In addition to being published in numerous literary journals, he has also been an artist-in-residence at the Peter Bullough Foundation and a board member at the Poetry Society of Virginia.
When not writing, Joseph works in the social care landscape, developing solutions to help connect clients to life-saving social needs, and lives with his wife and children in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
“I always believe, no matter what the doctor says, that I will be cured,” she says as her sister sits next to her.