Lois P. Jones is a recipient of the 2016 Bristol Poetry Prize, 2012 Tiferet Poetry Prize and the 2012 Liakoura Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Bridport Prize in poetry. Her poetry has been published in anthologies including The Poet's Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing), Wide Awake: Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond (The Pacific Coast Poetry Series), 30 Days (Tupelo Press) and Good-Bye Mexico (Texas Review Press). She has work published or forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Narrative, American Poetry Journal Tupelo Quarterly, The Warwick Review, Cider Press Review and others. She is Poetry Editor of Kyoto Journal host of KPFK's Poets Cafe (Pacifica Radio) and co-hosts Moonday Poetry. Lois's poems have won honors under judges Fiona Sampson, Kwame Dawes, Ruth Ellen Kocher and others.

Books by Lois P. Jones:

Other poems on the web by Lois P. Jones:
Two poems
Two poems
"After the Sniper"
"Paris"
"At Le Petit Pontoise Café"
"Reading 'Shadowlands' to a Friend At The Sepulveda Dam"
Three poems
"Foal"
"Canal du Midi"

Lois P. Jones's Website.

Lois P. Jones on Twitter.

About Night Ladder:

"Against all that's occurring around us, the very existence of these poems seems a miracle—their deep shimmering beauty, their sense of mystery, as full of light as shadow, and a kind of inviolate purity rare in today's poetry, rare anywhere. Lois P. Jones is a remarkable imagist and an uncommon talent. And it occurs to me that these poems hold just what readers so often turn to poetry for, to be carried deeper into themselves and also into the sensory, and sensual, outer world, and toward that indestructible goodness that prevails through time and against every opposition."
—Suzanne Lummis

"Here is a poet who dares everything—she sings, she philosophizes, she converses with the dead—to bring us closer, impossibly, to what we have lost. "I will be the spirit of your / departed," she writes. And so she is, in every haunted line, but she is also a guide to our arriving—in this world, where the living is."
—Joseph Fasano

"Lois P. Jones's Night Ladder chronicles how the world moves spiritually and sensually through us, while also recognizing how we move through the world, watching "clouds / turn from oblivion into spectacle, / burning the world as they go." There is a timelessness to these poems, a conversation with the present as well as with Lorca, Rilke, Picasso, and more—as if the voice of this book has slipped the temporal bounds that tether most voices to a date in history, a moment in time. Jones asks: "...what can we carry but a chance // to remember how a man is a lantern / lowered into the earth." Astonishing. Beautiful. The poems in Night Ladder guide us on an exploration of that eternal question with a deft and mature hand. You'll likely read these poems in quiet solitude, and then, I hope, you'll want to share them aloud with someone you love."
—Brian Turner