Jon loomis biography book

A blog about poetry, teaching, crime fiction maybe , a certain amount of politics, guitar gear and other stuff. 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 town in Appalachian southeast Ohio, in the wild and woolly '60s and '70s yes, I'm old. My father was a Yale-trained artist who taught painting and drawing at Ohio University for thirty years. After college I worked at a variety of shitty jobs, to paraphrase Phil Levine: construction, landscaping, retail including a brief stint at a porn shop, from which I was fired , and so on.

I started writing poems with some seriousness during this time.

Jon loomis biography book: Jon Loomis is the author

Then in I won a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, which changed everything. After that I moved around a lot: back to P'town, then to Florida, then Atlanta, and back to P'town again. In I moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, of all places, where I still live with my wife, the fiction writer Allyson Goldin Loomis also a former UW-Madison writing fellow , and where we are both associate professors of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

So that's the detailed bio. Regarding "Deer Hit," here are a few things you might say to your teacher:.