Jonathan Johnson's previous Carnegie Mellon poetry titles are Mastodon, 80% Complete and In the Land We Imagined Ourselves. His poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry and read on NPR. He is a professor in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

Other poems by Jonathan Johnson in Verse Daily:
May 18, 2010:   "She of Tioga Creek" "Marsh went mostly unnoticed then..."

Books by Jonathan Johnson:

Other poems on the web by Jonathan Johnson:
Three poems
"To Whoever May Care for Me Dying"
Nine poems
Two poems

About May Is an Island:

"In his new book, Jonathan Johnson steps across the landscape of relationships that connect us and meditates on the gift of life's small moments. Bound together with reverie, and an awareness of time running out, this is poetry that should be a guidebook for the living. Through loss and wonder, this is a language that surprises me and sweeps me up, poem by poem, serving as a reminder that even amid pain 'there is no end to the joy.'"
—Dorianne Laux

"The recovery and discovery of the poet's home place and original people informs these well-wrought poems. Fellow pilgrims will find in Johnson's explorations worthy guidance for their own journeys."
—Thomas Lynch