Jonathan Fink is Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing at University of West Florida. His most recent book of poetry is Don't Do It—We Love You, My Heart (Dzanc, 2025). He has also received the Editors' Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review, the McGinnis-Ritchie Prize for Nonfiction/Essay from Southwest Review, the Porter Fleming Award in Poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Joshua Tree National Park, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and Emory University, among other institutions.

Other poems by Jonathan Fink in Verse Daily:
December 14, 2003:  "Paradise" And though our classic view of it is wrong..."

Other poems on the web by Jonathan Fink:
"The Succession of Mothers"
"Joined To All The Living There Is Hope"
Three poems
"The Crossing"
"Quinta del Sordo"
"Thanksgiving"

Jonathan Fink's Website.

About Don't Do It — We Love You, My Heart:

"Jonathan skillfully grapples with thematic material engaging larger social and political implications without sacrificing precision of language, clarity, and the quest for beauty that characterizes all of his work."
—Natasha Trethewey

"Fink's a better guide than Dante had through our hells and heavens."
—Mary Karr