Biography
Jonathan Weinert was born in Boston and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program.
Jonathan's first book, In the Mode of Disappearance (Nightboat Books, 2008), was selected by Brenda Hillman for the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize, and was named a finalist for the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Jonathan is co-editor, with Kevin Prufer, of Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin, a collection of essays, interviews, and exchanges on W. S. Merwin's poetry since 1988, forthcoming from WordFarm in April 2012.
Jonathan's poems and reviews appear in many journals, including Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Witness, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, and 32 Poems.
Jonathan lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with the poet Amy M. Clark and their son Jonah.
Contact
E-mail jweinert [AT] comcast [DOT] net
UPCOMING EVENTS
BOOK LAUNCH 03.03.2012
7 pm
Celebrating Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W. S. Merwin
With Kevin Prufer, Jeanie Thompson, Matthew Zapruder, Forrest Gander, Mark Irwin, and others.
Chicago Hilton
Chicago, IL
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