Gordon Johnston's first collection of poems is Scaring the Bears (Mercer University Press, 2021). He has also written two chapbooks, Durable Goods (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Gravity's Light Grip (Perkolator Press, 2007), co-authored with Matthew Jennings Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief Guide with Field Notes, and published poems and prose in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. He also writes clay pages—poems wood-fired into stoneware by Roger Jamison. Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit from 1996—2007, Johnston is professor of English at Mercer University, where he directed Creative Writing until 2017.

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