Jones Jean. The Birds of Djakarta

Laurinburg, NC: St Andrews College Press, 2008. — 69 p. — ISBN: 978-1599481388.St. Andrews College Press of Laurinburg has just released The Birds of Djakarta, a new collection of poems by Wilmington author Jean Jones. The title poem includes an oblique reference to the author’s Indonesian ancestry.
A longtime Wilmington resident, Jones graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (where he won the book award in what was then the Creative Writing Program) and went on to earn an MFA from Bowling Green State University.
As Ryan David Miller writes in the book’s introduction, “He knows everyone, has been published in stacks upon stacks of local and non-local publications and is always putting something together or talking about poetry …” Jones has been long associated with the online poetry zine Word Salad, and his work has appeared in St. Andrews Review, Pembroke Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Fuse magazine, Beautiful Nuance (which awarded the title poem its LizaBeth Poetry Award), King David, Decompositions and Quill & Ink, to give a partial list. His previous anthologies include Beyond Good and Evil.