Brief description: Terry Cox-Joseph is a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and is a former newspaper reporter and editor. From 1994-2004 she was the coordinator for the annual Christopher Newport University Writers' Conference and Contest. An award-winning poet, she has been published in Northern Virginia Review, Allegro, Chiron Review, The Blotter, Avocet, and Red River Review among others. She displays and sells her watercolors, acrylics and oils at Blue Skies Gallery in Hampton, Virginia. Her children, pets and the waterfront provide a constant resource for her writing and art.
Review Quotes:
With an artist's eye for detail, Terry Cox-Joseph meditates on the joys of long life and the pains of dementia, exploring "that flawless interval when a moment / lasts a year."
Bill Glose, author of Personal Geography, Half a Man, and The Human Touch
Memories, illuminated by stellar images, blaze with clarity in Terry Cox-Joseph's Between Then and Now. An accomplished artist, the author relies on visual astuteness to recreate indelible moments of her past in poems that serve as curative antidotes. Whether confronting a brother's cancer, a father's memory loss, or a cousin's drug addiction, Cox-Joseph retreats to her art studio or to a writing desk for therapeutic relief. Like the ethereal colors well-rendered in her artwork, every word matters in this chapbook that captures truths we often fail to address.
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Virginia Poet Laureate Emerita