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Jon Bishop is an MFA candidate at the University of St. Thomas, where he studies poetry under the direction of James Matthew Wilson. His work has appeared in a variety of journals and outlets. He lives in New Hampshire.
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In praise of Sarah Cortez’s transcendent poetry 

November 20, 2023 Jon Bishop 3

A true poetics engages the real. A true poetics is not kitsch or sentimentalism. As Flannery O’Connor reminds us, the best writing and poetry “is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the […]

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