Draft:Jonathan Graham
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Jonathan Donald Graham (born June 5, 1947) is an American writer, poet, and physician.[1]
Career[edit]
Graham was born along the Ohio River in Martins Ferry[2] on June 5, 1947.[3] He grew up near Wheeling Steel in rural 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 six 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, Graham 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, Graham has returned to writing.[2]
Authorship[edit]
Graham's work has been published in I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices[6] and by the Wick Poetry Center.[7] It has also been performed on NPR's Ideastream[8] and through the Ohio Poetry Association. His poetry collection Everything Waits (Cornerstone Press, Univ of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point) was published in September 2023, and was described by the publisher as highlighting "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] His poem "Scream red . . . for a secret passage to air" appeared in a hybrid collection, The Sky Was Always Underground: A Lyric Memoir of Appalachia (Sunbury Press) in January 2024, describing 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]
- ^ a b "Lakeland Community College hosting international guest speaker series". October 13, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f [Graham, J. (2023). Everything waits. Cornerstone Press.]
- ^ a b c "The Sky Was Always Underground". Sunbury Press Bookstore.
- ^ "Mount Union Magazine Fall/Winter 2019 by universityofmountunion - Issuu". issuu.com. January 2, 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Jonathan Graham, MD, Internal Medicine | Canton, OH | WebMD". doctor.webmd.com.
- ^ http://www.ohioana.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-Summer-OQ.pdf/
- ^ "6th Annual Edith Chase Poetry Reading: Songs for Wild Ohio". The Portager.
- ^ "The Global Vaccine Poem: Garden of Roses in Frost". Ideastream Public Media. April 16, 2021.
- ^ "Books - Cornerstone Press | UWSP". www3.uwsp.edu.