Andrea Potos is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press), Marrow of Summer and Mothershell, both from Kelsay Books. A new collection of poems from Fernwood Press is forthcoming in early 2025. Her poems appear widely in print and online, most recently in Poem, Potomac Review, Midwest Quarterly, The Sun, Poetry East, One Art, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal (Storey Publishing). Andrea lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Other poems by Andrea Potos in Verse Daily:
January 30, 2022:   "The Cello" "Strings slide in..."
August 9, 2019:   "In Ireland, With or Without My Mother" "Is it enough to call her..."
November 16, 2018:   "Visiting Your Grave" "I found the path behind the row..."
January 14, 2018:   "Van Gogh's Bedroom" "Forget the filmed theories, written explications..."

Books by Andrea Potos:

Other poems on the web by Andrea Potos:
Four poems
Three poems
Four poems
"Final Poem For An Estranged Friend"
Three poems
"Sleep Skills"
Six poems
"Apology in Rome"
Two poems
"The Poetry Reader Wants Meaning"
Three poems

Andrea Potos on Twitter.

About Her Joy Becomes:

"These poems are grounded in the long remembering of loss and shaped by the tender work of grief. They are brimming with epiphanies-in-the-ordinary, which after all, are the only ones that startle us into seeing our own lives anew."
—Mark S. Burrows

"These vivid, beautifully observed pieces immerse us in a time when the thin air / between worlds was still / noticeable and ordinary. Don't miss this collection."
—Laura Grace Weldon

"Her Joy Becomes is a book for those of us who find our prayers in poems, who find greatest joy in daily life with loved ones, books, the natural world, observing miracles occurring before our eyes."
—Donna Hilbert

"These poems are openings to wonder, traversing the seasons of the year and of the heart. Andrea Potos invites us into the intimacy of the color and texture of life."
—Christine Valters Paintner