Poetry

• Torch the Empty Fields. Order here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/orch-the-empty-fields-by-mary-jo-lobello-jerome-nwvs-171/ Published, Dec. 2022 by Finishing Line Press.

• Philadelphia Stories: “The Masterpiece in Our Bedroom.” https://philadelphiastories.org/article/the-masterpiece-in-the-bedroom/

• A Certain Kind of Swagger, anthology in honor of Christopher Bursk, “Tulips in Midwinter.” Available https://smile.amazon.com/Certain-Kind-Swagger-Christopher-Bursks

• Editor of anthology/handbook Fire Up the Poems: Poetry Prompts for Teachers. Published by the Poet Laureate Program of Bucks County Community College, 2021

• Literary North, “Tomato Intuition,” https://literarynorth.org/tomato-intuition-jerome

• Poets Reading the News, “Torch the Empty Fields,” November 2020.
  http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2020/11/torch-the-empty-fields-jerome/

• Bucks County Poet Laureate, 2019.

• “I Dream What My Mother Means to Say,”  Honorable Mention, 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Published in 2021 The Paterson Literary Review.

• Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spring 2020: “Lemon Tree Haiku.”
  http://www.svjlit.com/poetry#/poetry/svj-online-october-2020-grey-boggess-pretty-chielli-lobello-jerome-poetry/

• Ovunque Siamo, Spring 2020. “To Tell the Truth: Bulgari Sonnets,” “Gracie Clara Angie Rose,” “We Lived There (The First Kitchen),” “Dressing Yourself,” “Monster Sonnets: One and Two.” https://ovunquesiamoweb.com/vol-3-issue-5/mary-jo-lo-bello-jerome

• The River Heron Review, 2018 “Tokyo Underground Prayer.”

• US 1 Worksheets, Vol. 63, 2018. “Vreeland Avenue.” 

• The Stillwater Review, “Prostitute Waiting at Front Door,” “Twenty.” 

• Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spring 2019: “How to Eat Raw Herring,” “A Black Stone."

• Main Street Voices Poetry Contest, 2015, first place, “Tokyo Underground Prayer,” “State Road 113,” “My Missile Crisis.”

• Bucks County-Inspired Poems, An Anthology, 2017.

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