Review of Petition, Plume
“What great company this lived life’s poetry is! In keeping their delicate balance, Joyce Peseroff’s poems are honest and demanding; Tolstoyan in embrace”—DeWitt Henry
Review of Petition, On the Seawall
“Joyce Peseroff situates herself between the ordinary and the ecstatic, engaged with the every day experience of encounters and surprises”–Judith Harris
Interview with The Bedford Citizen
“I can bear what we have to bear now,” Peseroff said, “if we know there will be an end.”–Mike Rosenberg
Review of Petition, Boston Globe
“Peseroff writes of the places “I’ll never see again . . . I’ll miss always . . . no reason to return . . . 20 years / since we last stood astonished.” She writes of the ways we wander off and find our way, not necessarily back.”–Nina McLaughlin
Interview with Massachusetts Review
“I write a lot about the natural world, attuned to a landscape in rural Maine I’ve been observing for forty years. I grew up in New York City, but my father, a public school teacher, worked summers at a camp in ‘the country,’ and I loved every twig of it.”
Review of Know Thyself, The Woven Tale Press
“It takes nerve to write homophonic renderings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, yet that’s exactly what Joyce Peseroff has done in one section of her well-crafted, complex recent book of poems”–Ruth Lepson
Review of Know Thyself, Medium
“In the title poem of Joyce Peseroff’s rich and gorgeous collection, Know Thyself, the speaker announces a quest: ‘I’m looking for something I haven’t found.'”–Askold Melnyczuk