Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, including Marrow of Summer (Kelsay Books), Mothershell (Kelsay Books), and A Stone to Carry Home (Salmon Poetry). A new collection entitled Her Joy Becomes will be published by Fernwood Press in the fall of 2022. Her poems can be found widely in print and online, most recently in Poetry East, The Sun, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Braided Way, Literary Mama, and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (Storey Publishing).

Other poems by Andrea Potos in Verse Daily:
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 Marrow of Summer:

"These poems come to us like crusts of blessed bread, small moments of communion with the world. I love this book. Andrea Potos brings whimsy, wonder, and a willingness to be wrestled by life's challenges. And in every poem, she shows us how to be resilient, how to lean into essential gratitude, how to converse with color, with art, with other poets, with our heritage, with our self. Marrow of Summer leaves in us a wake of goodness, a certainty that we are deeply connected."
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"In this fleeting world of joy and sorrow, these startlingly lovely poems by Andrea Potos are salutary, like taking a quick, deep, clarifying breath. If only one could ever have by one's side such a poet—a wise poet who, despite the darkest odds, reminds us to never even consider choosing anything other than hope. This is a summer book to keep in one's proverbial winter coat."
—Richard Jones

"Reading the poems in Andrea Potos' new collection, Marrow of Summer, I was reminded of kotodama, the Japanese belief that deep mystical powers can dwell in words. How else to explain the draw of Potos' compact, prayerful, and fresh-sighted poems? With her trademark optimism and hope, she invites us in this new collection to create the place from where your beloveds may soar, so that we too might soar right along with her, into the heart of everyday life made more miraculous by the force of these carefully chosen words."
—James Crews