new from above/ground press: Against Perfectionism & Other Poems, by Jon Cone

Against Perfectionism
& other poems 
JON CONE
$6

HINGE 

Once upon
a time 

poetry told 
us something. 

It was a 
map, an eyeglass.

The name 
of the black cat

on the front 
porch is Hydra. 

Hydra is the 
name

of the black cat
on the front porch.  

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Jon Cone is a Canadian poet, editor, and writer who lives in Iowa City. He grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario, attended University of Western Ontario, in London, where he majored in English and Philosophy. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Recent publications include New Year Begun (Subpress Editions: Brooklyn, NY, 2022); Liminal: Shadow Agent, pts 1 and 2 (Greying Ghost, Salem, MA, 2022); An Ice Cream Truck Stalled at the Bottom of the World: a collection of plays/written with Rauan Klassnik (Plays Inverse, Pittsburgh, PA 2020); Cold House (espresso, Toronto, ON, 2017).  His recent poetry has appeared in the journals ant5 (Eugene, OR) and Scant (Manchester, UK).  His recent reviews have appeared in Rain Taxi (Minneapolis, MN). For eight years he edited the international literary review World Letter (Iowa City, 1991-1999).

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