Jon Loomis

Once in awhile one of my poems (literally one--"Deer Hit," from my second book) gets taught in a high school somewhere (I heard from a student in Australia this summer, even), and often those students are asked to dig up some biographical details and maybe some insight into the poem's creation, intended meaning, etc. So, to make their lives easier, here goes:I grew up in Athens, Ohio, a college to Read more of this blog post »