Jo Angela Edwins
@joangela.bsky.social
Poet, professor, animal lover; author of A DANGEROUS HEAVEN (2023) and chapbooks BITTEN (forthcoming 2025) and PLAY (2016); Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee region of SC; tired kitty mama.
Rainbow over I-20 in Camden, SC, today.
June 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rainbow over I-20 in Camden, SC, today.
I haven’t posted in a while, but this weekend’s Soda City Poetry Festival in Columbia, SC, rejuvenated my tired soul. What a great poetry community we have in SC!
June 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I haven’t posted in a while, but this weekend’s Soda City Poetry Festival in Columbia, SC, rejuvenated my tired soul. What a great poetry community we have in SC!
Thanks to my Francis Marion colleagues for this wonderful honor.
April 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thanks to my Francis Marion colleagues for this wonderful honor.
Mom, leave me alone, please.
March 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Mom, leave me alone, please.
Once again, no more grading for you, Mom.
March 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Once again, no more grading for you, Mom.
South Carolina writers, check this out!
SC Academy of Authors 2025 Coker Fellowship and Student awards in fiction and poetry!
Go to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for details!
SC Academy of Authors 2025 Coker Fellowship and Student awards in fiction and poetry!
Go to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for details!
February 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
South Carolina writers, check this out!
SC Academy of Authors 2025 Coker Fellowship and Student awards in fiction and poetry!
Go to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for details!
SC Academy of Authors 2025 Coker Fellowship and Student awards in fiction and poetry!
Go to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for details!
“Mom, forget grading. Just give them all a C—for catnip!”
February 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“Mom, forget grading. Just give them all a C—for catnip!”
“Mom, I really like this video you’re watching!”
February 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“Mom, I really like this video you’re watching!”
Mom’s purse makes a great pillow!
February 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Mom’s purse makes a great pillow!
Tim Scott, like so many Republicans, loves to ignore all the laws and Constitutional protections the current administration is breaking while hiding behind the idea they have legal authority to pillage and ransack. BS. Call them on it. Click to enlarge.
February 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Tim Scott, like so many Republicans, loves to ignore all the laws and Constitutional protections the current administration is breaking while hiding behind the idea they have legal authority to pillage and ransack. BS. Call them on it. Click to enlarge.
We all should be screaming loudly over this (and so very much more).
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We all should be screaming loudly over this (and so very much more).
Two poems in the Apricity issue of Prosetrics Literary Magazine, each poem written some years ago. I confess it’s hard to feel warmth this winter.
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Two poems in the Apricity issue of Prosetrics Literary Magazine, each poem written some years ago. I confess it’s hard to feel warmth this winter.
About half an hour ago…
January 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
About half an hour ago…
Brilliant pantoum.
January 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Brilliant pantoum.
You owe no one merriment. Take care of yourself!
December 22, 2024 at 3:42 AM
You owe no one merriment. Take care of yourself!
No writing tonight, Mom!
December 21, 2024 at 2:27 AM
No writing tonight, Mom!
Cat logic: I’m hiding! You can’t see me!
December 17, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Cat logic: I’m hiding! You can’t see me!
My derpy Stevie girl.
December 11, 2024 at 6:10 AM
My derpy Stevie girl.
I can get behind these alternative sleigh-pullers moonlighting as writers…
December 9, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I can get behind these alternative sleigh-pullers moonlighting as writers…