Jon Cone
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AFTER MY TYPEWRTIER GOT STOLEpublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
To be young
to have nothing nothing!
to be drunk and in love
kissing on a street corner
where light is derelict
laughing with the municipal workers
waiting for the first bus
as if for a new invention
May 2026
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Jon Cone is a Canadian writer who lives in Iowa City. He grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He saw the Three Stooges perform live at the Canadian National Exhibition. He watched George Chuvalo fight Muhammad Ali on a black-and-white tv. He saw the Toronto Maple Leafs play at Maple Leaf Gardens. He went to Seneca College in Toronto for one year before attending the University of Western Ontario in London.
This is Cone’s third title through above/ground press, after Against Perfectionism & other poems (2025) and the collaborative AN ACCELERATION & A CALM / A SHEAF BY THE LATE P. M. SAMSON / COMMENTARY BY BARNARD SWALLOW (with K.Lipschutz, 2026).
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