Jona Colson received his BA in English and Spanish from Goucher College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Subtropics, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. His interviews and translations can be seen in The Writer's Chronicle, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly. He teaches at Montgomery College in Maryland and lives in Washington, DC.

Books by Jona Colson:

Other poems on the web by Jona Colson:
"Mother, Rest"
Two poems
"Among Panicles of Spent Flowers"

Jona Colson on Twitter.

About Said Through Glass:

"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