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Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.
Creekside is a collection of poems inhabited by daughters and fathers, snakes and crows, sex and politics, waterways and backwoods. More a menagerie than a treatise, Raimon meanders through nature and human longings, befriending critters and trees along the way.
While the verse is spare and punctuated with dark silences, the poems still remain tender and welcoming: a hopeful envisioning rather than a gritty reflection. Raimon’s love of water and woods eddies through his poems.
Jon C. Raimon teaches writing to teens in Ithaca, NY. His work explores grief, nature, family, resistance, and all forms of love. He is part of Spring Writes, Ithaca’s literary festival, and finds inspiration in Baldwin, his children, his students, and the creek down the road.