For Your Good Health, Drink Flowers: New and Collected Poems
Bass Clef Books, 2023.
“Distilled from a lifetime of close observation, the poems in this capacious collection embrace stillness and motion, relationship and solitude, declaring the necessary sustenance in each.”
– Leatha Kendrick
“Libby Falk Jones’ latest collection is a compendium of wonder.”
– Richard Taylor
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Yakety Yak (Don’t Talk Back): Poems. Workhorse Writers, 2022.
“Delightfully experimental, these poems deconstruct the very institutions they superficially support, creating a
powerful examination of race, class, and gender.”
– Julie Hensley
“Relax in the hands of this talented poet who renders a new landscape on each page, music in every line.”
–Tina Parker
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Coming of Age: Writing & Art by Kentucky Women Over 60, Vol. 2. Ed. with Julianne Unsel. Red Lick Valley P, 2023.
“This program has brought me the confidence and the clarity to know I AM A WRITER. It has jump-started and fine-tuned my desire to write.” – Coming of Age participant
“I have learned that we do not have to feel alone in our writing projects. I am so lucky to have been part of this year’s group.” –Coming of Age participant
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Coming of Age: Writing & Art by Kentucky Women Over 60.
Ed. with Julianne Unsel. Red Lick Valley P, 2021.
“This anthology of original writings in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, political essays, and scholarly research represents a selection of the best writings to emerge from this writing community of nearly 60 women.”
–from the Introduction
“The women in Coming of Age share my love of writing and my love to share writing. We have built a wonderful community where we can help each other with suggestions, share constructive criticism, and grow as writers.”
–Coming of Age participant
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Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue. Finishing Line, 2010.
“Vibrant, lyrical, these poems illuminate the world of everyday experiences, linking them to a metaphysics of transcendence wherein divine spirit enters and speaks. They contain revelations.”
– bell hooks
“More than a nature poet or a love poet, Libby Falk Jones is a co-creator of the human universe we inhabit word by word. Her poems spin ‘spirit threads’ that comfort, lift, and wholly amaze the reader.”
– Marilyn Kallet
Writing Awards
Accents Literary Magazine poetry contest: Finalist, 2023 and 2022
Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize: Winner, 2021; Finalist 2019; Third 2010
National Federation of State Poetry Societies: Second Prize and Honorable Mentions, 2020, 2018, 2016
Residency Awards
Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts: 2017, 2016, 2012
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts: 2012