Anton Jones
Graduating with his MFA from Portland State University, Anton Jones now works as an assistant professor of English at Concordia University, Chicago. In the spirit of Catullus, he and his friends attribute their love for writing to spending Friday nights around a campfire roasting each other with comedic poetry.
about This Is Not A Death Sentence
Explore the depths of This is Not a Death Sentence, a memoir in verse by Anton Jones, where poetry meets the raw truths of living on the schizophrenic spectrum.
Jones crafts a poignant narrative that weaves together the threads of depression, mania, boxing, door-to-door sales, delusional crushes, poverty, haunted houses, suicide, healthcare challenges, homelessness, fatherhood, and the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest.
Each poem serves as a fragment of Jones's fractured reality, reflecting the relentless struggle to conceal stigmatized symptoms, only to confront them head-on. His poetry captures the essence of his lived experience, depicting the suffocation of coherent thought through a cascade of movements, associations, and vivid hallucinogenic imagery. Despite years of decline and what seemed like an endless fight, Jones finds the strength to confront his illness, refusing to surrender to despair.