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Jona Colson

Jona Colson is the author of Said Through Glass, and the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero. His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers’ Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College and lives in Washington, DC. www.jonacolson.com.

2018 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize

WWPH Publications by Jona Colson

Testimonials

  • The concerns of Said Through Glass are large and haunting: the mortality of one’s parents, the fraught nature of love and eroticism, and the deep solace of poetic solitude. Said Through Glass is an original, unsettling debut from a poet of considerable gifts.

    Elizabeth Spires

  • This compelling collection of poems presents the reader with understandings that seem to me to come, not just through glass, but through wavy glass. The poems fashioned out of grief are fresh and complicated and moving, and, at the same time, clear. The waves make all of the difference.

    Sidney Wade

  • Charged with political immediacy and dripping with sensuousness, Said Through Glass displays mastery of genres…but what keeps the reader invested is Colson’s ability to surprise. Colson achieves what many mid- or late-career poets only hope for: to make his imagination, as Wallace Stevens put it, become the light in the minds of others.

    Brian Brodeur

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