Philip K. Jason is the author of twenty books, including The Critical Response to Anais Nin (Greenwood Press, 1996); Acts and Shadows: The Vietnam War in American Literary Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); and Don’t Wave Goodbye: The Children’s Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom (Praeger, 2004). His “Florida Writers” column appears in Florida Weekly, and his book reviews appear in Fort Myers Magazine, Southern Literary Review, and Washington Independent Review of Books. Jason retired to Naples, FL after a 36-year college teaching career, most of it at the US Naval Academy. For twenty years, Jason was editor of Poet Lore, and for eight years he organized the annual Naples Press Club Authors and Books Festival.
To read more by this author: Five poems, Spring 2001