Jo Angela Edwins

Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues including Calyx, Whale Road Review, Rise Up Review, New South, Zone 3, and Adanna. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee and has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She lives in Florence, SC, where she serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.

“The Concept of Order,” “That Hurt” and “Wolfwomen”

As a species, humans
live their lives in degrees
of alarm. Mostly, for most
of us, there isn’t much.
The world spins exactly
as we have come to expect it,
and caught wherever
we are,

Jo Angela Edwins

Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues including Calyx, Whale Road Review, Rise Up Review, New South, Zone 3, and Adanna. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee and has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She lives in Florence, SC, where she serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.

“The Concept of Order,” “That Hurt” and “Wolfwomen”

As a species, humans
live their lives in degrees
of alarm. Mostly, for most
of us, there isn’t much.
The world spins exactly
as we have come to expect it,
and caught wherever
we are,

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