The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of After the Harvest, the new collection of poems by John P. (Jack) Kristofco, the award-winning poet and author who has published four previous volumes of poetry. These poems were composed over the last fifteen years with most of them having first been published in various national literary journals and reviews. Here are some observations about Kristofco’s poetry:

“Kristofco’s poetry is brought to life by original metaphors and a tension that grips and holds as we are brought into that territory where the unconscious speaks for us all.” Simon Perchik (1923-2022) poet

“Kristofco’s mastery of things poetic is obvious and fresh…his work gives us reasons for things, helps us to make sense and beauty out of the sad and mundane.” Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, poet and editor

“Kristofco’s poems paint pictures of the sad and stunning beauty surrounding the human condition. His poems are, at once, stories and paintings—paintings of portraits within landscapes—in which the reader is given glimpses into levels beneath the surface.” Jan Epps Turner, poet and editor

“Kristofco’s explorations of transience and permanence, of the stubborn things of this world…are beautifully precise and vivid. Jeff Gundy, poet

“Kristofco is a poet who pays close attention to the things of this world, finds the revealing details of the everyday that bring the larger world into focus.” Jim Daniels, poet

“Kristofco displays subtle mastery in his ability to flirt with nostalgia and sentimentality but skillfully avoid them through evocative, deft imagery and restrained editorial commentary, punctuated by bursts of musicality.”
Eric Greinke, poet and editor

“Kristofco writes seamlessly executed poems to which you will nod your head, smile, and return again.”
Ann Howells, poet and editor

Over the last thirty years, John P. (Jack) Kristofco has published over seven hundred poems and seventy short stories in about two hundred different publications, including: Folio, Rattle, Bryant Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Fourth River, Stand, The MacGuffin, Sierra Nevada Review, BlueLine, Slant, Pinyon, POEM, Snowy Egret, Freshwater Review, and Clackamas Literary Review. He has published four poetry collections, most recently Sunlight in the Stream (Orchard Street, 2022). He has also published a collection of short stories, The Alex Chronicles (2021) with a second, Incidents and Accidents, currently under development. His first novel, SOS 1962, is scheduled for release in the summer of 2025. Jack was the recipient of the 2002 Chaffin Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times. In 2011, he retired from a distinguished, forty-year career as a professor and university administrator (the last fourteen of those years as Dean of Wayne College at the University of Akron). Jack lives with his wife, Kathy, east of Cleveland where he pursues his passions for writing, music, photography, and watching three children and nine grandchildren take their swings at changing the world.

John P. (Jack) Kristofco

After the Harvest is available for $15 (online or by mail) from:

The Orchard Street Press
P.O. Box 280
Gates Mills, Ohio 44040

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