THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Wed 3pm

Guest San Diego Poet JON VON ERB

Poet Jon Von Erb, new to San Diego, now resides here. Dubbed The Poet Laureate of University Heights, he is delighted in his new city. He mentors poets world-wide online. Professionally he recently retired from practicing therapeutic, medical massage therapy. His first career was that of a ballet dancer, choreographer and professor of classical dance techniques in America, including Alaska, and throughout Europe.

November 2019 marked the date of his 1st published book of poetry, Insights of a Dancing Poet. He now writes poetry for the University Heights Community Newspaper and occasionally the San Diego Union-Tribune. His poems have been published in many anthologies in San Francisco, Palm Springs and has a poem coming out in the San Diego Poetry Annual, 2023.

Following his desire to spread the joy of poetry, he offers his poems at three local coffee cafes and has a poetry box outside his residence in University Heights in the San Diego neighborhood.