In Renaissance paintings she holds the child like a porcelain doll. She sits surrounded by animals and men, having given birth in a stable, and she isn’t the least afraid. Sometimes artists build strange worlds of meticulous Technicolor order. She did not ask for this. She did not demand that her statue mark every cathedral […]
Jo Angela Edwins
Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues including descant, Whitefish Review, Zone 3, and West Trestle Review. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the SC Academy of Authors. She serves as the poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.