Joanna Solfrian’s work has appeared in Margie, The Southern Review, Rattapallax, Pleiades, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Stonecoast MFA program, she was awarded a Pushcart nomination and a MacDowell fellowship. She works with teenagers and lives with her husband and baby girl in northwestern Connecticut.

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About Visible Heavens:

"There are poems which carry us clean away, transporting us into worlds as specific as the pink purse the author of Visible Heavens helps a little boy buy for his teacher, Miss Stone. Melancholy and loss, the missing of a gone mother, passion and solitude—stirringly well mixed in one potent brew of a book. Readers will feel at home here, but they’ll also feel ignited with new presences, keenly visible and invisible perceptions—‘It is a gift, this light we carry in our lungs.…’ Cheers to Joanna Solfrian for a fine first book, the stunning deep breath of her voice."
—Naomi Shihab Nye