Jon Swan Jon Swan is a poet, translator, and journalist, who lived for forty years in the Berkshires and now lives in Maine. His website is jonswanpoems.com Articles from Jon Swan
Viewpoints POEM: Presidential Pillow Talk, Barr on the Neighboring Pillow Ratta-tat tat. Teargas attack. And that, Billy-boy, is that! Jon Swan
Arts & Entertainment POEM: The Quack behind the Counter Follow up, as indicated With a shot glass full of Clorox Jon Swan
Viewpoints POEM: White man in blue suit in White House There is something truly Biblical about this fellow -- a Hoosier saint in-waiting, Jon Swan
Viewpoints POEM: Badger-State Blues I have this sense that what we took for granted for so long -- the way we lived, and moved, and had our being -- will be changed for all time Jon Swan
Arts & Entertainment POEM: Anchors Aweigh! The flotilla of uplifted houses sets out in search of Nova Terra Firma. Jon Swan
Viewpoints POEM: Of Toads & Men “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?” Jon Swan
Arts & Entertainment POEM: Get Over It, Kids! And think of it: if planet Earth is, in fact, warming faster than ever, as some say, what’s wrong with that? Jon Swan
Arts & Entertainment The Sandwich Board Man at the Corner of Bolsonaro and Fifth and the heat underfoot is getting hotter, as if the street’s on fire, and nobody can put it out Jon Swan
Viewpoints POEM: Mike & Matthew: Showdown at the Border ...if turned from meek-and-mild front to back, reveals himself to be the “whited sepulcher”... Jon Swan