Jeanette Pole Wattley was born on the beautiful Island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. She is the 2nd of four children, born to Arnold and Rita Pole. She attended Morgan State ...view moreJeanette Pole Wattley was born on the beautiful Island of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. She is the 2nd of four children, born to Arnold and Rita Pole. She attended Morgan State University for 2 years, but obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY. She always loved the arts, and was blessed to develop a love for writing, especially, poetry. Writing poetry became a form of therapy, as she realized how much it helped her to get through many hard times in her life.
Though lots of her poems are written about things that she actually experienced, lots of them also come from meeting, interacting, and listening to other people’s stories. She is then able to put those experiences in the written word. She believes that something as simple as a written thought, or word of encouragement, could make a difference in a person’s life. She feels it would be selfish not to share her poetry with others, in hopes that they could find something of value in them, also.view less