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Jonathan Graham (born June 5, 1947) is an American writer, poet, and physician.[1]

  • Born: June 5, 1947, Martins Ferry, Ohio[2]
  • Occupation: Writer/Poet [1], Clinical Chemist
  • Spouse: Martha McClay (m. 1980)
  • Children: 2
  • Genre: Poetry/Short fiction

Condensed Bio[edit]

Jonathan Donald Graham was born along the Ohio River in Martins Ferry on June 5, 1947.[3]. He grew up near Wheeling Steel in rural Southeastern Ohio in a small ethnic enclave of immigrant Czechoslovakian coal miners [1] [3]. After attending Mount Union College [4], where he played football, Graham was drafted into the military, choosing to serve 6 years in the US Navy: first as a hospital corpsman/medic, then later was commissioned in the Navy’s Aerospace program, completing flight training, as well as advanced study in altitude physiology and survival techniques [2].

After fulfilling his military obligation, he returned to school, working nights and weekends as a clinical chemist while studying poetry writing under Poet Laureate James Dickey.[2], and medicine, becoming an Emergency Physician who practiced for 30 years at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio [5]. Jon resides on Lone Willow Farm in East Central Ohio [2]. After a 40-year hiatus, Jon has returned to writing [2].

Authorship[edit]

  • Notable achievements:
    • Graham's work has been published by I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices [6] and the Wick Poetry Center [7]. It has also been performed on NPR's Ideastream [8] and through the Ohio Poetry Association.
  • 1) Poetry Collection: Everything Waits (Cornerstone Press, Univ of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point, Sept 2023)
    • Book description: “In his lyrical and expansive debut, Jonathan Graham highlights the natural world, the rugged beauty and kinship with a coal-mining region in Appalachia, the loud thunder when relatives and townspeople die in a devastating mine explosion – the yin and yang of love and death, remorse and longing.” [9] [2]
  • 2) Hybrid Collection: The Sky Was Always Underground: A Lyric Memoir of Appalachia (Sunbury Press, Jan 2024)
    • Book description: "I scream red . . . for a secret passage to air: Willow Grove Mine cries out in a poem in the aftermath of a gaseous explosion that claimed the lives of 72 coal miners, devastating a community in Southeastern Ohio for decades."[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Lakeland Community College hosting international guest speaker series". October 13, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f [Graham, J. (2023). Everything waits. Cornerstone Press.]
  3. ^ a b c "The Sky Was Always Underground". Sunbury Press Bookstore.
  4. ^ "Mount Union Magazine Fall/Winter 2019 by universityofmountunion - Issuu". issuu.com. January 2, 2020.
  5. ^ "Dr. Jonathan Graham, MD, Internal Medicine | Canton, OH | WebMD". doctor.webmd.com.
  6. ^ http://www.ohioana.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-Summer-OQ.pdf/
  7. ^ "6th Annual Edith Chase Poetry Reading: Songs for Wild Ohio". The Portager.
  8. ^ "The Global Vaccine Poem: Garden of Roses in Frost". Ideastream Public Media. April 16, 2021.
  9. ^ "Books - Cornerstone Press | UWSP". www3.uwsp.edu.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jonathan_Graham