FOSSIL FUEL published 2007 by Gold Leaf Books
What are the stories buried within each of us? How do we honor and refuel fragmented desires? These are the central questions in FOSSIL FUEL, JoAnne McFarland’s latest poetry collection. Experimental in form, often employing two voices with erotic reverberations, these poems are lyrics of liberation. Who would you be, what would you do, if you listened more closely to the music within?THE GLASSBLOWER'S TALE published 2005 by Gold Leaf Books
"I am stunned by this new jump into the bigger, less tamed world of THE GLASSBLOWER'S TALE, a world that explores the undertow that somehow we seemed protected from in McFarland’s earlier work." — Katherine Leiner

FLIGHT PATTERNS published 2004 by Gold Leaf Books
"The poems in this collection aren’t as spare as those in Asian forms, but they are succinct nonetheless, as if the poet has arrived at some sort of accommodation with, understanding of life. Here’s ‘the wild crane on the river bank, there the bamboo in the wind’: short, sturdy, purposeful brushstrokes limning life like lightening on a long landscape." — The Iconoclast

STILLS published 2000 by Acorn Whistle Press
"McFarland presents the poems here as portraits. Beyond this, many of her poems move like musical compositions, building to crescendos, frequently conveying a longing for a childhood whose memory, poetically rendered, evokes a sense of almost magical transcendence."
— Red Rock Review

EQUINOX published in 1984 by The Hourglass Press
JoAnne McFarland’s first collection of poems.

2002 WATERMARKS Finalist Associated Writing Programs Award Series (Judge: Cornelius Eady)
2002 BRUSHSTROKES Second Place Honorable Mention Finishing Line Chapbook Competition
1998 STILLS Finalist Brick House Books Manuscript Competition.