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Jon Wesick

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Host of the Gelato Poetry Series, instigator of the San Diego Poetry Un-Slam, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Jon Wesick has published hundreds of poems and short stories in journals such as The Atlanta Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Pearl, Slipstream, and Tales of the Talisman.

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Words of Power, Dances of Freedom now available

My poetry collection is now available online.
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the universe is crawling
on skin soft with expectation
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lifting the bluebird’s cleavage
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