Jonathan Potter

Jonathan Daniel Potter is the author of House of Words (2010), Tulips for Elsie (2021), Sunrise Yin and Sunrise Yang (2022), How to Move to Canada (2024), and The Sweet Spot in the Chaos (2025). His poetry also appears in the Imago Dei, Railtown Almanac, and Spokane Writes anthologies, in a variety of journals, on The Writer’s Almanac, and in Potter Poems, a daily Substack newsletter. At various times and places, Potter has hosted Naked Lunch Break (a lunchtime poetry open mic and reading series), moderated the Poets of the Pacific Northwest and Poetry Salon panels at the Get Lit! literary festival, and contributed work to the Hotel Spokane, Only Time Will Tell, Verbatim, Pictures of Poets, and 50-Hour Slam collaborative projects, happenings, and exhibits. He divides his time between Washington (the state) and Montreal (the island).