Listen to Jo’s interview on her latest volume of poetry, Rendering, published by Salmon Poetry. Jo is the author of The Measure (Finishing Line Press), Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers, New York (The History Press), and Commonplace Invasions (Salmon Poetry) and editor of Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (State University of New York Press). Jo’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She earned a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Kirkland College and an MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Joining Jo for part of the show is Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, and poet and visual artist, Pamela Manché Pearce.
“Jo Pitkin’s Rendering is the story of a love affair, told through poems that are in love with language... In these poems the exterior and interior landscape is equally lush, equally wild and crafted, such that the title poem’s depiction of a painter at work describes this entire collection: ‘Spark. Flame. The drum of avid concentration.’” - Suzanne Cleary, author of Beauty Mark