The Poet and the Poem
2025-26 Series

Featured Jona Colson & Caroline Bock

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Jona Colson is a poet, educator, and translator. He is the author of Said Through Glass (WWPH), translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero, and co-editor of two anthologies including America’s Future: Poetry and Prose in Response to Tomorrow (2025). His poems and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers' Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College and lives in Washington, D.C. www.jonacolson.com

Caroline Bock’s latest novel, The Other Beautiful People, a workplace love story about a movie-loving marketing executive, will be published on June 2, 2026, by Regal House Publishing. Her short story collection, Carry Her Home, won the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. She is also the author of acclaimed young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes from St. Martin's Press. Notably, since 2022, she has been the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers' Publishing House. She is the prose editor on the following anthologies: This Is What America Looks Like (2022), Capital Queer (June, 2025), and America's Future, poetry and prose in response to tomorrow (September, 2025).

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