Jonathan Diaz lives in Whittier, California with his wife, Abigail. He is currently a faculty member of the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Jonathan’s poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, St. Katherine Review, and Rock & Sling.
Gather from this world and its infirmities language that can bear you, and in which you can bear to speak of God: say that sight surrenders petty deities of mild benevolence and cruel inaction who smile on calamity, giving small joys for consolation. Still, since you can neither ease your suffering nor excise your glory […]
A poem by Jonathan Diaz
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