Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including The Actual World, Quality of Life, and Give over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, AGNI Online, Barrow Street, and Esquire, among others. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Middlebury College, and his M.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Charles Simic. Since 2008, he has taught in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.

Other poems by Jason Tandon in Verse Daily:
April 18, 2014:   "Reception" "The moon like a sickle's blade..."
February 12, 2010:   "Grace" "Beneath a sapling cypress, Buddha floats..."
December 3, 2008:   "A World of Rights and Wrongs" "Afraid of white lies..."

Books by Jason Tandon:

Other poems on the web by Jason Tandon:
"Work"
"Christmas Lights"
"Fatherhood, Beginnings"

Jason Tandon's Website.

Jason Tandon on Twitter.

About The Actual World:

"Here is spiritual clarity and acute observation fused with the enigmatic, eclectic, and occasionally surreal. The poems in The Actual World are deeply felt, sometimes funny, often wise, and always capable of reminding us that, as Oscar Wilde said, 'the true mystery of the world is the visible.'"
—Katrina Vandenberg

"In poem after poem, Jason Tandon discovers just how mysteriously connected unlike things can become in their transport from the literal to the figurative. These quotidian reports resonate as lyrical meditations on the ironic dramas of daily life in a poetic calculus of luminous details, hard facts, compassionate witness, and original conceits. I am particularly struck by how remarkably little 'irritable reaching' emanates from each poem. Clearly, Tandon has disciplined himself to write as he lives and live as he writes."
—Maggie Dietz

"Jason Tandon's strong lines are at home in the senses, but also keyed to reflective solitude. His pacing is deft and catches the 'double-take' surprise of the important moments."
—Sven Birkerts

"If you'd like to know how to hold the wide world in your heart, this book is a beginning. Jason Tandon does not offer broad brushstrokes to explain our days, but sharply cut lyrics. I love his sensibility. I love his spirit."
—Richard Jones