Poetry
Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems
"With brevity and sensitivity, these daily haiku carry us through an unfolding tragedy, all the more delicately for their economy of words, and all the more effectively for their precision of image and feeling."
–Br. Paul Quenon, OCSO
Author of Unquiet Vigil:
New and Selected Poems
and In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir
Retracing My Steps
"Jayne Moore Waldrop’s Retracing My Steps is presented as a chapbook but the power of the poems inside give it the force of a fully achieved book. Waldrop’s voice is strong, clear, confident, convincing. The nineteen poems, several two pages in length, reflect the mature consciousness of a strong, observant woman who shares what she sees and hears, thinks, experiences and remembers. An occasional colloquial touch in some of the poems grounds the writing in regional earth. Retracing My Steps is a solid achievement."
–Gurney Norman
Kentucky Poet Laureate 2009-2010, Author of Divine Right’s Trip and
Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories
Poetry featured in Collections
"Kentucky Simmer Sauce," Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Volume 14 (2022)
"Ballast," Women Speak: Women of Appalachia Project Volume 7 (2021)
"What I've Learned in a Pandemic," In Isolation: An Anthology (2020)
"The Night Earth Stepped In," "The Year We Fell Apart,"
and "Near El Paso on the Feast of the Holy Innocents," Appalachian Review, Fall 2020.
"Ashes, Ashes," Still: The Journal, Fall 2020
"Mantle of Invisibility" and "Eclipse," Women Speak Anthology: The Women of Appalachia Project Volume 5 (2020).
"Drowned Town," "Retracing My Steps," "Expat Elegy," Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume (2018).
“Coming through Cumberland Gap," The Paddock Review, Spring 2018.
"Drowned Town," Kentucky Monthly, 2018 Penned Poetry Contest.