The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Miguel Avero and Jona Colson

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Jona Colson is an educator and poet. His poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the Jean Feldman poetry prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is currently a professor at Montgomery College in Maryland where he teaches English as a Second Language. He is co-president of the Washington Wrtiers' Publishing House and poetry editor of WWPH Writes. He lives in Washington, DC.
 
Miguel Avero is a poet, narrator, essayist, teacher, and researcher whose work has been translated into English and French. He writes literary reviews for the weekly Brecha and has appeared in various national and international anthologies. Since 2011, he has published nearly a dozen books of poetry and fiction. Between 2017 and 2018, he directed the writing workshop "Puerta Quimera." He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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