Joyce Wilson

Poet

Scituate, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
jpwwilson@comcast.net
Website: 
www.poetryporch.com

Author's Bio

BIO:  Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch (www.poetryporch.com), a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, among them Free Inquiry, Salamander, The Lyric, and Poetry Ireland. Her chapbook The Need for a Bridge and a full-length collection Take and Receive were both published in 2019. A new collection of poems To the Springhouse appeared in 2022. Her poem “The One and the Other” won the Roberts Prize, The Lyric, in 2022. A sequence of poems “The Octagonal Schoolhouse” won the Samuel Washington Allen Honorable Mention Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2023.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Tree Lines: 21st Century Poems (Grayson Books, 2022)
,
An Amaranthine Summer (Kelsay Books, 2021)
,
Bagels with the Bards #14 (Ibbetson Street Press, 2020)
,
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poets on Greek Mythology (University Press of New England, 1999)
Books:
Take and Receive (Kelsay Books, 2019)
,
The Etymology of Spruce (Rock Village Publishing, 2010)
Chapbooks:
The Need for a Bridge (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
,
The Springhouse (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
Prizes won: 

The Lyric, Roberts Prize for "The One and the Other," which appeared in The Lyric, Vol 101, No. 2, Spring 2021.

A sequence of poems “The Octagonal Schoolhouse” won the Samuel Washington Allen Honorable Mention Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2023.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, EMILY DICKINSON, Eavan Boland

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Schools, Seniors, Teachers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Wilmington, DE
Delaware
Raised in: 
Chadds Ford, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Jan 04, 2024