“I absolutely love Joanna Penn Cooper’s poetry. She gracefully changes direction from mid-thought to mid-thought, but I’m always very clear as to what shape she is before she shifts. And I enjoy all her intelligent shapes. This sounds like a lie, but it’s true. I feel so well-treated by these poems. By the zombie in the giant suit Stop Making Sense costume. By the poet wearing the crown. ‘Either way, we’re all wearing the crown.’”

— Jennifer L. Knox,
author of Drunk by Noon
and The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway