Johnny Horton teaches English at Seattle Central College. He’s taught creative writing at Richard Hugo House and in Rome. He also teaches classical literature to veterans. He’s published poems in City Arts Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Willow Springs, Los Angeles Review and Horsethief. He’s received a Washington Artist Trust GAP grant and his poetry manuscript has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Anthony Hecht Prize. He lives in Seattle where he walks his dog and writes essays about higher education for Crosscut.
PRAISE:
The world as filtered through Horton’s deep understanding of history is a fabulous place, and these poems are wonderful in their revelations. The poems in Sea Legs pull off that wondrous feat of creating a portrait of a brain in action. In these inventive, funny, elegant poems, a portrait of a self-aware thinker emerges, the poet in the world, making associations of myth and history and memory, weaving them into his poems in ways that reveal connections that are both unexpected, and, once made, instantly recognizable.
–Rebecca Aronson, author of Anchor, winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry and the Philosophical Society of Texas Poetry Award
With its sly wit and keen perception, Sea Legs makes a fine sauce for tenderness as well as grief, offering poems that disarm, reveal, and steady the heart with unpretentious elegance.
–Randy Sue Coburn, author of Owl Island
Opening Sea Legs is like entering a cathedral in a foreign country: an immediate sense of familiarity and shelter you forgot you had. In pages where ancient meets modern, where travelers, locals, devotees, and heretics all gather, Horton’s work is novelty that remains novelty. It invites you to traverse centuries, laugh at modernity, and jump over some dire ‘No Trespassing’ signs, all with a sigh of relief.
–Sophia Bruscato, author of Primeira Pessoa
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