Christine Jones lives with her husband on Cape Cod, where you’ll find them swimming in their shark-mitigating wet suits. She earned her MFA from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a therapist and mother of two. She’s founder/editor-in-chief of Poems2go, an international public poetry project, and an associate editor of Lily Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and online, including 32 poems, Sugar House Review, Cider Press Review, SWWIM, On the Seawall, Solstice Literary Magazine, Nixes Mate Review, Passagers Journal, Pangyrus, Blue Mountain Review, Ruminate, Mom Egg Review, Literary Mama, cagibi, Salamander, and others, also broadcasted on WCAI”s Poetry Sunday. Several poems have been turned into short films.

She is author of Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020), Now Calls Me Daughter,(Nixes Mate Review, 2022), and most recently Limb of Water (One Bird Books 2025.) She’s also co-producer of the short documentary film Daughter of Rubens, featured at the 2023 Provincetown International Film Festival, co-founder of Lily on the Cove Manuscript Retreats, and co-editor of the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic

 

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Filled with the sensuality and aural mystery of the ocean, its salty air, sand, wind, and dunes, this multi-layered, visually arresting poetic conversation with the sea enchants and dazzles with the grand scale of its world. It casts its spell as its gorgeous tangle of written words flow through and around text.Reader, look closely at these images – they give more and more of themselves with each rereading. They tell secrets and pull the reader in like a rich wave. This is great poetry and art, but even more, a great and emotionally generous experience. You will want to read it again. You will want to live it. You will want to dive in.

 

~Suzanne Mercury

 

Limb of Water can be purchased by contacting christinebessjones@gmail.com or online  here

 

In this compelling first book, Christine Jones is both a close observer and a deft transformer of the observed. The self of the poems-girl, mother, lover, daughter-is at home in the body; body is at home in the natural world, with which it often intersects ( it is “one of nature’s device’). Jones confronts the difficulties of loss, acknowledging that ‘What we fear s traveling toward us” but adding, “so is what we love.” Language itself-carefully spare but metaphorically rich-is both a source and a reflection of that love.   ~ Martha Collins

Girl Without a Shirt can be purchased here

Can be purchased by contacting christinebessjones@gmail.com or online here