About
[Jason] Tandon … does much with few words, with delicacy, precision, and occasional humor. … He reminds us there’s meaning to be found in the act of attention itself.
—The Boston Globe
Tandon practices the aesthetics of the afterthought … finding the exact point at which a recognition or delayed perception enacts a shift, and the seeming ordinary suddenly feels numinous.
—Sven Birkerts
Jason Tandon’s poems feel lived in, available at all hours of the day.
—Mark Decarteret
Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of five collections of poetry: This Far North, The Actual World, Quality of Life, Wee Hour Martyrdom, and Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press.
His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, North American Review, Esquire, AGNI Online, and Poetry International. His poems have also been featured on NPR and on Verse Daily.
He earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with the late Charles Simic. He is currently teaches at Boston University, where he is a master lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program.
Jason Tandon 