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Another Found Poem: Making a Dead Snake Visual Poetry

2025 is the Year of The Snake in the Chinese calendar. So it’s fitting that one of the found poems … More

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#Printmaking, Accordion Book, art and nursing, Book Art, books, literary art, Monotype Prints, poem, poems, poetry, Posts about Art, Snake Poem, Visual Poetry, writing

Exploring Shaped Poetry: Star Man 2025

For the past few weeks I’ve written about the recent generative writing workshop, Visual Poetry: Seeing is Believing I attended … More

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Art, art and nursing, ekphrasticpoetry, Literary, Literary Arts, poetry, Posts about Art, Shaped Poetry, Visual Arts, Visual Poetry

Exploring Found Poetry: Creative Expression with Limits

Found poetry is the visual art of creating a poem using fragments of printed words culled from old books, magazine … More

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Art, art and nursing, Artist Book, Found Poetry, poetry, Posts about Art, Visual Poetry

Exploring Erasure Poetry: A Creative Challenge

Erasure Poem & Booklet with Monotype Print and Collage by Julianna Paradisi 2025 In the past I have expressed resistance … More

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#LiteraryArts, Art, art and nursing, Art and Poetry, Erasure Poetry, personal growth, poetry, Posts about Art, Visual Poetry

Exploring Visual Poetry: Creative Techniques and Personal Growth

Visual Poem Art Book by Julianna Paradisi 2025 It’s Sunday and here I am, fighting the urge to post five … More

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#EkphrasticPoetry, #LiteraryArts, Art, art and nursing, art books, Book Art, CheechandChong, poem, poems, poetry, Posts about Art, PsychedelicArtPosters, Visual Poetry, writing

Watch Video: Julianna Paradisi reads her ekphrastic poem, Capricorn Love at Blackfish Gallery, October 29, 2024, Portland, Oregon

On October 29, 2024 I had the pleasure of participating as a visual artist and “poet” in Artist Talk as Poem, … More

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#Art&Nursing, #EkphrasticPoetry, #LiteraryArts, #PDXBookFest, #PoetryReading, #PortlandArtist, Art, ekphrasticpoetry, nurse blogs, poems, poetry, Posts about Art

No Leaders Please

“invent yourself and then reinvent 

yourself.

don’t swim in the same slough.”

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Art, art and nursing, artist blogs, artists and healthcare, Charles Bukowski, No Leaders Please, nurse artist, poetry, Retired Nurses, retirement, RN blogs, Transformation

Book Review: Sky the Oar, Poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo

Sky The Oar poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo  Publisher: Press 53, 2018 Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a poet living in … More

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art and nursing, art by nurses, gifts for nurses, help for new nurses, nurses, poetry, Press 53, Stacy R. Nigliazzo

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Here is a lovely bit of poetry written by Charles Bukowski and read by Tom Waits.  In case you didn’t … More

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Charles Bukowski, hope, love, nurse lifestyle, nurses blog, poetry, rn blog, self-love, The Laughing Heart, Tom Waites, Valentine's Day

Comfortable with the Squishy: Part I

I need to make an appointment for an eye exam. I suspect I need a new prescription. So of course, … More

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Art, art and nursing, Monet, nursing lifestyle, poetry, rn blog, science, squishy

A Little About Myself

Unknown's avatarJParadisiRN is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Julianna was a frequent contributor of illustrated blog posts to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 33 years, specializing in Pediatric Intensive Care, Oncology Infusion, and as an Oncology Nurse Navigator.

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