Jason Grundstrom-Whitney's poetry has been featured recently in 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers, the Lewiston Sun Journal, and the Underground Writers Association's Anthology of Maine Poets. He has read at the Belfast Maine Poetry Festival, Longfellow Days at the Brunswick Public Library, the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Quiet City Books in Lewiston, the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, and the Portland Public Library.

Books by Jason Grundstrom-Whitney:

About Bear, Coyote, Raven:

"In his impressive first book, Bear, Coyote, Raven, Jason Grundstrom-Whitney takes us deep into the mythic. These poems span many worlds from Deep Time to modern day powwows and move effortlessly between the sacred and irreverent, humor and awe, grief and resistance. Bear breaking guitar strings with his claws as he attempts to play, dreaming the constellations; Raven collecting shiny things as gifts for lovers, absorbing the sins of the world and transforming them in his own body; Coyote walking the trail of the Milky Way, tapping his foot to the bass line of a Mingus tune. This is storytelling at its best, poetry that sees so that we may see, songs that invite us into mystery, stories that heal."
—Cheryl Savageau

"Playful, imaginative, respectful, insightful, droll, emotional, shrewd--these poems cast a spell that brings the reader into the very web of earthly--and beyond earthly--being. The characters are classic Native figures--Bear, Coyote, Raven--that in Jason Grundstrom-Whitney's able hands take on very distinct lives. There are poem-stories in this book to live by and treasure, the old wisdom made new--a beautiful and real achievement."
—Baron Wormser

"Whitney's work in Bear, Coyote, Raven delves deep into the crevasses of our unconscious selves connecting our human nature to the elements and wild chaos we come from, and can so easily return to. His writing is clear, and wonderfully alive weaving us into that great mystery where 'spring is [constantly] born' within us. 'Dust seeks dust, wild seeks wild' is a truth he recognizes in all transformations we embrace or run from. This book is a dance of life, and Whitney's words humble us with their beauty, sensibility, and ancient truth."
—Claire Hersom

"Spirituality braided with the power of nature's world thrums through every line of Jason's poetry. These jewel-like poems carry themes of transformation and reunion with the wild, a call to see the world with refreshed eyes, to recall we are part of an integrated web where no creature or plant is less important than any other. Jason's work reminds us we are woven into the wheel of time and nature, and his lyricism awakens souls numbed into slumber by urban modernity. Nothing is more urgently needed while we stand on the precipice of climate disaster than the spirit called forth in Bear, Coyote, Raven."
—Deborah Rosch Eifert

"Neon and silence--where city streets meet desert, visions flow through daily life, hunger meets a desperate meal only to have to run again, claws meet fingers, where music ties it all together and unties it all, stars and people separate and reunite--clearly Jason Whitney has spent a lot of time at all kinds of lonely crossroads--and come back full of blues and compassion and knowing, remembering, 'a time when we walked together/for a short while.'"
—Jay Franzel