Eclipse (Poetry), Long Beach, CA
Eclipse examines our relationship to that to which we can never return and, ultimately, embraces transformation in the wake of devastation.
“I hope these poems help others understand that illness, loss, and grief are ever-changing conditions, and while we hold them in our bodies, we also change and evolve.”
Ja’net Danielo is the author of the chapbooks This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors’ Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021). A recipient of a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, she has been a winner of the River Heron Editors’ Prize and the Fischer Prize, an honorable mention for the Tom Howard Prize, and a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Recently, her manuscript Eclipse was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize and the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry. Ja’net’s poems have appeared in The Journal, North American Review, swamp pink, and Diode, among other places. Originally from Queens, NY, she lives in Long Beach, CA, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.
Visit Ja’net’s website, at www.jdanielo.com