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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Lois P. Jones' awards include the Lascaux Poetry Review Prize in 2017, the Bristol Poetry Prize in 2016 and the Tiferet Poetry Prize in 2012, with work shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in poetry in 2016 and 2017. Jones' has work published or forthcoming in anthologies including New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell of London); The Poet's Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing), and Wide Awake: Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond (The Pacific Coast Poetry Series). Other publications include Narrative, American Poetry Journal, One, Tupelo Quarterly, The Warwick Review, Cider Press Review and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Jones' first collection of poems, Night Ladder, is Glass Lyre Press's 2017 Editor's Choice and listed for the Julie Suk Award. She hosts KPFK's Poets Café in Los Angeles and co-hosts the long running Moonday Poetry Series at the Flintridge Bookstore.
Also by Lois P. Jones:
Night Ladder
Reading “Shadowlands” to a Friend At The Sepulveda Dam
Canal du Midi
After the Sniper
you came to the conclusion
a story must be told backwards
Once at the well of her throat
amethyst beads on the carpet
her palm flat against the floor
Embers in the last darkening
plum burnt and ash heavy
A pomegranate not yet split
with a knife
The curtain closed
after a season of bullets
One burst through
the frosted glass
knocking out a tooth
How she slumped
behind the lace drape
and its white
eyelashes Her salt
still glistening on the brow
Of this a day where
the sun rose as a fig
of untouched juices
Her book open to a page
of wild irises bent over
a canal of saints —
two lovers making
whatever they could
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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