Growing up in Memphis Tennessee, Joyce Oscar seems to have always had stories and rhymes in her head. This graduate of Mercer University attributes her love for words and expression to her mother and her tenth grade Literature instructor. Joyce believes that poetry is the measured language of emotion, it bears witness to our lives and what we have experienced. It is a celebration of language in its most illustrious, enchanting, and intense form. She also feels that poetry has the inimitable power to re-create the human experiences like falling in love, losing love, facing death and disease, losing faith and courage, and finding God. Poems transform the everyday into a creative journey through our imaginations.