Don Johnson

Don Johnson is a professor and Poet-in-Residence at East Tennessee State University where he has taught for the last thirty years. He served as general editor of Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature for 16 years and as poetry editor for the journal from 2006-2010. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Importance of Visible Scars (Wampeter Press, 1984), Watauga Drawdown (Overmountain Press, 1991), Here and Gone: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana Literature Press, 2010), and More Than Heavy Rain (Texas Review Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: An Anthology of Modern American Baseball Poems (University of Illinois Press, 1991).