DB Jonas

DB Jonas is an American poet living in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico.  His work has been widely published in journals throughout the US and UK, Ireland, Holland and Israel.  He is the author of two collections, Tarantula Season and Other Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and the upcoming Flight Risk, Poems and Translations (Kelsay Books, February 2025).

The lyrical and intellectual sophistication of these poems accomplishes the promise of all important art by reintroducing us to the luminous richness of the world while encountering the inconvenient stranger always present at the heart of the familiar. Alain Toumayan, The University of Notre Dame


In the tradition of Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, DB Jonas has constructed a soaring architecture in verse. Joel Van Valin, Publisher of Whistling Shade and author of The White Forest

Poetry of an astonishing cultural and sensory range, a sustained musicality, a fusion of observation and introspection, carried by a consciousness that resists faith yet is haunted by the intangible. Nothing else I have seen recently makes as plausible a claim to continue the tradition of Rilke and Wallace Stevens. Esther Cameron, Founding Editor and Publisher, The Deronda Review

Jacob van Ruisdael (1648-1682) The Forest Stream