October Poetry Monday: Joan Peronto
Joan Peronto
Joan Peronto is an emerging poet it gives me great pleasure to introduce. Her poems thus far have appeared only in a number of small publications and in Crossing Paths, an anthology of Western New England poets, but we will be hearing more of her. Currently, after raising seven children who are now, as she tells us “educated and thrust upon the world,” and after working for thirty-four years as a reference librarian, she has retired to devote herself to poetry. Her new and soon-to-be-realized project is a collection of poems about a small Midwestern town, similar to the one in which she grew up. Continue reading October Poetry Monday: Joan Peronto
