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 let you know that you can now find three of my poems in Issue 14 of
Gargoyle Magazine!

Click here to read my poems in the issue!

Or you can hear me read them by clicking on their titles under the Selected Poems tab above!