Lois P. Jones’s poetry has published in American Poetry Journal, Raven Chronicles, Qarrtsiluni, Rose & Thorn, Tiferet, San Diego Poetry Annual and other print and on-line journals in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2008 she is a host on KPFK’s long-running radio series in Los Angeles, Poet’s Cafe (90.7 FM Pacifica Radio), produced by Marlena Bond which airs the 2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. Lois co-produces the Moonday West reading series in Pacific Palisades. She is the Poetry Editor of Kyoto Journal and a four-time Pushcart Nominee as well as a 2010/2011 nominee for Best New Poets and a 2012 nominee for Best of the Net. In 2010 her poem “Ouija” was selected as Poem of the Year by judge Dana Goodyear.
Publications and Prizes
Anthologies:
San Diego Annual (William Harry Harding--Garden Oak Press, 2012), Chopin With Cherries (Moonrise Press, 2010)
Journals:
American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, ASKeW, California Quarterly, Kyoto Journal, Loch Raven Review, Pirene's Fountain, Prism Review, Qarrtsiluni, Quill & Parchment, The Raven Chronicles, The Rose & Thorn, The Sierra Nevada Review, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Web del Sol
Prizes:
2012 Tiferet Writing Contest (Poetry); 2012 Liakoura Poetry Prize; Poem of the Year - IBPC 2010
Second Place, Judged by Fiona Sampson First Place, Judged by Kwame Dawes First Place, Judge by Fleda Brown