Belle Laide

Following a brief foray into the slam and performance poetry world, Joanne Dominique Dwyer went on to earn a BA in Creative Writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Conduit, FIELD, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly. Dwyer resides in Northern New Mexico where she works as facilitator for the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.

• Ars Poetica, or Keeper-of-the-WaterCoat-of-ArmsHaremLate Night ConfessionsBarely a Body Comes KnockingAphonicSurrenderFeral FieldsUnder House ArrestPhoturis P. Bears and MarmotsNotes on Photuris P. if an owl is colorblindThe Relativity of SorrowIn the Arms of MorpheusDiscalcedIIBentAnimal LoveAbsolutionRequest to a LoverThe Last Shepherd DownSupine in the Sun in the Neighborhood of NakedIn the Geometry of LessWedded to DirtA Beehive on a ShelfBarebackI Draw BloodThe Skin of an OtterKyphosisIIIChristina the AstonishingLingualDown-by-the-RiverGetting Back on the Back of a HorseIn the Yard of the SanatoriumShe Had Some WaterAlchemySpinningMechanical BullPlease, Come InSnowMay 25Closer to the SurfaceBull's-eyeNo Identity Crisis Here