Jon Pineda

Jon Pineda is the author of six books, most recently the novel Let’s No One Get Hurt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). He teaches at William & Mary.

Reading List

Upriver

Jon Pineda  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

pools unspool like a pulled thread the brightest colors muted as fish hover near wedged boulders splashed with pale lichen if I stay here longer I will have to keep telling myself to breathe

No Shoulders

Jon Pineda  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

I slip an oar into water & gently push against the bottom we drift while perch thin shadows in roots of tupelo you point to where they hang overhead all skin & leaves already lifeless draped until one slides through a small space of sky & into the river just in […]