“Much like Woody Allen’s Zelig, my face appears in photographs from Zen centers, martial arts dojos, nuclear physics labs, and cities all over the world. I hope I’ve passed on some of what I’ve learned in the more than two hundred poems I’ve published in journals such as Pearl, Pudding, Slipstream, The New Orphic Review, Iconoclast, Asinine Poetry, Cherry Blossom Review, Colere, Edgz, The Magee Park Anthology, Mannequin Envy, Midway Journal, The New Verse News, Pirene’s Fountain, Plain Spoke, Raving Dove, R-KV-R-Y, The San Diego Poetry Annual, Still Crazy, Straylight, Sunken Lines, Tidepools,and Urthona. My chapbooks have won honorable mentions twice in the San Diego Book Awards. My poem, “Bread and Circuses,” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists contest.” 

Read Jon’s Poetry:  

• Speechless

• Basset Hounds and Love Affairs

• Houseless

• Listening

• Loose Ends

 You can find Jon’s work elsewhere online at the following locations (by category):  

• Novels

  • The Speed of Regret (pen name Ganesha Lightwave)

  • Stories

    • A Cautionary Tale

    • Challenged (p 150)

    • The Alchemist’s Grandson

    • Golden Delicious

    • Jaguar

    • Black Ships

    • Wet Work

    • Poems

      • Poems from Asinine Poetry

      • Aftermath

      • Some poems at the Three Treasures Zen Center website

      • Broken Window Theory

      • Poems on Seven Circle Press

      • Hiroshima