Author
Jo Angela Edwins
2 works
Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in over 100 journals and anthologies. She is author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (2023) and the chapbooks Play (2016) and Bitten (2025). She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, the Jasper Project, and the SC Academy of Authors. She teaches at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, and is the poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.
Old Stories
Have you heard the one about the woman who went hiking / running / walking / riding /
quickstepping through the mountains / park / forest / city street and never came home? Of course
you have. So often that you, especially if you are not a woman, might call this story humdrum /
What They Left Behind
The day after the phone company
jackhammered the asphalt
on this neighborhood street,