J. Chester Johnson’s ‘You, A Love Poem’ Featured for Valentine’s Day on Times Square Jumbotron

The poem, ‘You, A Love Poem’, from J. Chester Johnson’s latest collection of poetry, Reading Whispers: Book of Triple Haiku, was repeatedly featured for Valentine’s Day on Times Square jumbotron (see below). Reading Whispers has recently been published by BlazeVOX (books), a major publisher of poetry, both domestic and international.

I think we can now assume that the poem, “You, A Love Poem”, is one of the more popular ones, contained in READING WHISPERSBook of Triple Haiku. In addition to the poem’s repeated appearance for Valentine’s Day on Times Square jumbotron, Carnegie Hill Village, an important organization on the upper eastside of Manhattan in New York City, used, “You, A Love Poem”, in its Valentine’s Day publication.

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

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