STORYTELLING

Caroline recently started telling stories live at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn, Illinois as part of their Voicebox series. Click here to see a funny story she told on October 8, 2019 about her husband’s cat, Iggy. Click here to see a story she told about Phil Donahue’s pajamas.

INTERVIEWS

• A podcast interview with editors Blair Hurley and Olivia Tandon about the poetry process that went into The Caregiver.  Two Cities Review, February 2019.
• An interview on Bekah Steimal’s blog. Includes Caroline’s poem, “Barista.” July 22, 2018.

Below is a list of some of the online journals that have published Caroline’s poetry and prose. Click on the link to read. Note these are listed chronologically, with the most recent listed at the end, so scroll down to see more recent publications.

POETRY

• Chicago Tribune, “Maple Lake: A Sestina.” August 10, 2012. Winner of the 2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Poetry Contest.
• Your Daily Poem, “Autumn.”  Oct. 24, 2012.
• Your Daily Poem. “Relationships.” March 31, 2013.
• Buddhist Poetry Review.  “Hauling Water.”  Summer, 2013.
• The Quotable. “Sunsets.” Fall 2013. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• Illinois State Poetry Society website. More than 10 of Caroline’s poems published there over a 15 year period. Click here to see the titles and links.
• Uproot Literary Journal. “Digging.”   December 2013.
• The Popcorn Farm. “This Old Soldier.” Winter 2013.
• Highland Park Poetry. “Lighting the Way.” 2014 Winter Gallery Archive.
• Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge. “Barista.” Feb. 25, 2015.  Winner of the blog’s February 2015 Poetry Challenge.
• Blast Furnace. “Celebrating Six Years of Marriage, June 15, 2009.” April 20, 2015.
• NonBinary Review. “This Yellow Balloon.” July 20, 2015.
• Two Cities Review. “The Language of Love.” August 5, 2015. Blog and Podcast.
• Autumn Sky Daily. “Maple Lake: A Sestina.” September 2, 2015.
• Highland Park Poetry. “Spirits of Wonder.” Winter 2015 Poet’s Choice Gallery.
• A Year of Being Here. “Blue Sky.” April 26, 2015.
• Highland Park Poetry. “Dream of the Horse.” Summer Muse’s Gallery 2015.
• A Year of Being Here. “Hauling Water.” October 4, 2015.
• Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge. “Crossing.” Oct. 30, 2015.
• Blast Furnace. “Train.” Oct. 31, 2015.
• Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge. “Fog.” June 1, 2016.
• Silver Birch Press. “Sonnet to My Sister: For Minnie Mouse.” July 8, 2016.
• Soul-Lit. “Seasons of Love.” Summer 2016.
• Highland Park Poetry. “How to Read a Poem.” 2016 Summer Muse Gallery, “How To” Poems.
• Silver Birch Press. “If I Were a Goddess.” Oct. 8, 2016.
• Surreal Poetics. “Impressions.” Nov. 11, 2016.
• Lunch Ticket. “The Caregiver.” Winter / Spring 2016. Nominated for Best of the Net.
• Highland Park Poetry. “The Language of Love.” 2016 Winter Poet’s Choice Gallery.
• Street Light Press. “Bones.” May 15, 2017.
• I Come From the World Literary Magazine, “Three Poems by Caroline Johnson.” June 27, 2017.
• Tuck Magazine, “To the Eight Hundred Thousand DACA Children, from one Cancer Survivor.”  November 20, 2017.
• Quill and Parchment, “Lighting the Way.”  January, 2019.
• Quill and Parchment, “Maple Lake: A Sestina.”  January, 2019.
• Quill and Parchment, “Shut-Ins.”  January, 2019.
• The Writer’s Almanac, “Rewind.” August 19, 2019.
• The Writer’s Almanac, “Dangerous Driving,” October 20, 2019.
• Pink Panther Magazine, “Rowing,” March 8, 2020. Page 29.
• Quill and Parchment, “Conjuring” and “Triptych in Color,” May 2020.
• Quill and Parchment, “Gliding,” June 2020.
• On Loan from the Cosmos, “Upon Learning I had Cancer and (shortly after) that My Book was to be Published.” August 2020.
• Oddball Magazine, “Veteran’s Day.” November 13, 2020.
• Friends Journal, “Garden of COVID,” March 1, 2021.
• Your Daily Poem, “Garden of COVID,” May 10, 2021.
• Verse-Virtual, “Moon Walk” and “Amazons,” July 2021.
• Verse-Virtual, “The Last Toy,” “Last of the Seers,” and “At the Plaza del Carmen in Madrid,” December 2021.
• The Poet, “Boiler”, “The Last Toy“, “Amazons“, and “Tai Chi“, May 2022.

PROSE

• Blanket Sea Magazine, “The Second Arrow.” Feb. 22, 2018. Flash nonfiction piece about chemotherapy.