Joyce will be reading from Some Things in This World (Rootstock Publishing 2025) her third collection of poetry on Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 pm.
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Joyce has lived in Vermont since 1980, when she joined the faculty at Castleton State College, now The University of Vermont State-Castleton. For over thirty-five years she had the opportunity to teach, and learn while so doing, a remarkable array of courses, including Folk Tales, Western Mythology, Lyric Poetry, Homer/Virgil/Milton, Creative Writing, Shakespeare, Greek Tragedy, Women Writers, surveys in World, English, and American Literature, The Art of Children’s Book Illustration, Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature, Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature, Native (Indigenous Peoples’) Literature. In 2018 the VSC awarded her Professor Emerita status.
Joyce’s poems more often are inspired by the natural world as opposed to the “confessional” and personal: the beauty and wonder of Nature, the abuses to which humans have (and continue to) subjected it. She bears witness.
Some Things in This World (Rootstock Publishing 2025) follows Washing Birds (Main Street Rag) and Skins (Fithian Press). She has published individual poems in journals ranging from JAMA and The American Review (first prize winter) to Blueline and The Florida Review. Her poems have appeared in such anthologies as Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont (Vols. I and II), Awake In the World (Vol 2), Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, and The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her early work of nonfiction, Inside the Wolf’s Belly: Aspects of The Fairy Tale, was shortlist
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