"Poetry (when it’s successful) is a path to deep and high places, a way to connect with the sacred, a high road to knowledge. That's why it's important to me. I aim for stark simplicity.  I want - my goal - is for anyone who reads my poetry to touch with me a marrow bone or two of reality." 

Joneve lives and works in Manhattan, and hosts Poetry Soul to Soul, an on-line collection of contemporary poems from around the world.