John Claxton grew up in a small town in northern Illinois. After graduating from Butler University, he moved to Chicago and began a long career in advertising. Midway through this career, he worked on a project with Billy Collins. He decided, then and there, to become a poet and has never looked back. He has had poems published in the Atticus Review, Beyond Words, East by Northeast, Poetry East and Poets Choice. This is his first book of poems.
In this autobiographical book of poems, the arc of a life is considered from childhood to last days, each poem a stop along the way.
