Jon Obermeyer
Author, Teacher and Speaker
The Reassurance of Ghosts
The Winter Practice
The Low Wire
It Happens That Fast
Salsipuedes
Myriad
Centripetal Force
BLURBS
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What defines Jon Obermeyer’s poetry is a trust of plain speech and sure-footed humility; a willingness to let circumstance wash over, but not wash away.
The Reassurance of Ghosts is more than witness; Obermeyer eventually shows us that the cresting wave we ride from the moment we’re born is, ultimately, what we're meant to hold on to.
Jon Obermeyer was a student of the brilliant Robert Watson and one thing he learned from Watson was to find his own voice. These splendid poems are distinctly his, diction, lyricism, and meaning uniting to let us see what he sees, hear what he hears, feel what he feels
TERRY L. KENNEDY, New River Breakdown
KELLY CHERRY, The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems
BIO
A native of Santa Barbara, CA, Jon Obermeyer completed an MFA in Creative Writing at UNC Greensboro. He is the author of seven books, including two collections of poetry, two short story collections, a memoir, a book of essays and a guide to creative writing.
His poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Northern Virginia Review, International Poetry Review, , A Carolina Literary Companion, Spectrum (UC Santa Barbara), Blue Pitcher and Santa Barbara Magazine, and in the North Carolina anthology Edge of Our World. He was a finalist in the 2017 James Applewhite Poetry Prize.
A professional writer since 2002, Jon has edited and business books on the topics of cloud computing, the immune system, project management, public accounting, social media selling and artificial intelligence.
He has been a keynote speaker for a national library conference as well as Canadian optometry conferences in Toronto and Vancouver. He has been a guest lecturer at Legacy Academy, Greensboro Day School, Guilford Technical Community College, Westmont College, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He lives in Durham, NC.
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