A wonderful strange humor and deep wisdom—what we need. —Allen Ginsberg
Nobody sounds like him. Every Room We Ever Slept In is a wonderful book: smart and deep and funny and wise. —Marie Howe
The poems in part II, and the poems "The Pocketbook," "Prayer," and the long poem "Lives of the Romantics," among others, are rich, witty, skillful, original and wonderful moving meditations on everything from movies to God. —Ai
Luminous, various, wonderfully well-wrought, and always tilting on a deep, spiritual axis. —Nicholas Christopher
Jason Shinder was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1955.
His first book of poems, Every Room We Ever Slept In, was a New York Public Library Noted book and his second collection, Among Women, was published in 2001. He was the editor of several anthologies, including Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy, Best American Movie Writing, and The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later.
He founded the Writer's Voice at the West Side Y.M.C.A.
