About JoAnna

Poet    Gemologist    Appraiser of Estate Jewelry    Educator

I am a scavenger poet, rummaging through art, science, and everyday stuff that happens. I salvage old love letters, leftover dreams, rusty pots and pans to make poems with missing parts.

My poems are night passengers, zookeepers, bullets. Give me a wishbone. I will set the house on fire.

My poems are like bird nests, made with fragments randomly connected to hold the moment. I am like the old medieval monks who copied verses in colored inks so the world could sing forever.