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Welcome to the website for poet and writer John J. McDonough, Jr.
John's literary work has been published in Vox Clara, Two Hawks Quarterly, MUSE Literary Journal, California Quarterly, The RavensPerch, and elsewhere. A graduate of Stanford University, John is currently working on a crime novel.
Quote of the Month - December 2024
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Published 1923
Special thanks to Johnny Bravo and Hector Lugo of The Authors Guild for
their assistance!