Welcome to Jo’s Poetry and Art:
sensing, seeing, showing and saying

Thanks to everyone who supported the
Rooms for Love launch and House of Ruth fundraiser!
We raised over $1000 for House of Ruth!
(That’s $1000 in Poetry Money! Wow!)

I launched my new chapbook, Rooms for Love, at Bird In Hand Bookstore and Cafe as a fundraiser for House of Ruth Maryland, a Baltimore Women’s Shelter doing amazing work offering rooms for love. We had a full house and I read alongside these local luminaries (from L to R) Bill Gant, Kyle Solomon, (me), Faith-Anne Bell, Shirley J. Brewer & Otis Sprow!

You can order the chapbook anytime, directly from Bottlecap Press, here. I’ll continue to contribute all the proceeds to House of Ruth Maryland.

For more information on House of Ruth click here.

The Latest News!

I’m delighted to have two of my poems included in the July 2026 issue of Pen in Hand (Maryland Writer’s Association)!

You can read the poems and listen to me read them by clicking on their titles on the Selected Poems tab. The whole issue is available for your reading pleasure on Amazon here.