Jon Lawrence

Poet. Songwriter. Teacher. MFA from @WilkesUniversity

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Some early morning lines from Jesse Williard’s beautiful book, “Unmanly Grief” #poetry

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Going to try to get back on this twitter thing… looks like I forgot 😂 Or should I say X? I’m unsure of the etiquette these days.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

A reminder that Mary Oliver also wrote this:

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

I love dragonflies.

Franz Kafka, 1924.

[Etruscan Press @etruscan_press]

@JonLawrence1116's review of the forthcoming collection BLACK METAMORPHOSES by Shanta Lee is in The Bangalore Review.

Read it here: https://t.co/J4Wbvpz7oT

@TBR_Recommends @ShantaLeeG

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/MPmGWYAcQy

[YouAreHere @YouAreHereUA]

The theme for the 2023 issue of you are here: the journal of creative geography is COUNTER/CARTOGRAPHIES. Accepting all creative genres! We will release the full call for submissions very soon. In the meantime, please RT to spread the word and follow us to stay tuned!

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Opening the morning up with some Vallejo “Allow me to feel my pain…”

[Sean Thomas Dougherty @SeanLemonhead]

I confess poetry I practice like a religion. When I read a poem it is like reading scripture. But it is more powerful because another human wrote it. What is God but the human voice?

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

@earthandstars Dante Di Stefano’s “Lullaby With Incendiary Device” has some great environmentally minded poems in that collection.

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Really need to get back on the tweets! Well, I guess I’ve never been one for the whole social media thing…

[Riverandsouth @riverandsouth]

Submissions are OPEN for our Winter 2022 journal! We only accept submissions via Submittable.

#cnf #creativenonfiction #fiction #onlinejournal #opensubmissions #poetry #riverandsouthreview #submissions #submittable #submityourwork #writingsubmissions

https://t.co/LTcaU4Y7S1

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

@andishasabri I will def check her out. Thank you!

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Looking for some great short stories for my High School Level Creative Writing classes. Trying to get a shortlist of diverse voices, great craft wise, preferably more recent, that would be engaging for grades 9-12. Help me out here writers!

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

@SeanLemonhead I am always indebted to the words of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. They are filled with an endless maze of interpretation

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

@Read_Instead @etruscan_press has an amazing outreach program, with tons of resources. Take a look at their site, and get in touch with them.

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

I took this morning to compile a first, full length manuscript table of contents. After a couple times reading through, new poems seem to be popping up in my head already. Does this mean a manuscript is never really done?

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

Waking up, the birds tell/first light/everything they know. “From Darkness”- Tim Seibles

[Jon Lawrence @JonLawrence1116]

@SeanLemonhead I think there’s something interesting in saying poetry does “nothing,” as if this nothing is a state in which language can achieve. I’m unsure whether that’s a silence, or a state within the chaos of life that may bring solitude, or a respite just like @SeanLemonhead has said

[Sean Thomas Dougherty @SeanLemonhead]

the persistent danger for a writer? the thing I fear most has always been the constant feeling of irrelevancy---. I live with that daily struggle too. we make despite it. This is why I say poets are brave. In the face of silence and aloneness, we shape sound into a human face.