About Jonathan A. Wright
Jonathan A. Wright focused his 50-year construction, design, and development career on sustainable practices and materials, working with others to put into daily life the best practices for people and the environment. He has presented on major sustainability issues such as conservation, electrification, and healthy building science practices.
He has written poetry for nearly 60 years, and has read widely around the New England region, where he especially loves reading with others.
His photography of the natural world has been exhibited in Western Massachusetts and on Cape Cod.
He is a graduate of Hampshire College and makes his home with his family in Western Massachusetts. His additional interests include sculling, woodworking, collaborating with other writers and artists, and presenting on and advocating for energy and resource conservation.
Other books by Jonathan A. Wright:
Living Building Makers: Creating Sustainable Buildings that Renew Our World (Ecotone Publishing, 2019).
In this curated and illustrated collection of design and construction stories, Jonathan A. Wright chronicles the life-changing experiences of engagement in the Living Building Challenge. His company, Wright Builders, Inc., was the first firm in the world to complete two Certified Living Buildings.
After the Rain (Gallery of Readers Press, 2014)
Jonathan A. Wright’s first poetry collection, with original cover art by artist Page R. Allen.
“While Wright’s poems carry the heavy freight of human sadness, longing, and loss, they also celebrate joy through deeply felt meditations on familial love and a longstanding intimacy with the natural world. Nature is the primary lens through which the poet reveals territories of mind and heart that are alternately thrilling and unsettling. Beneath their lovely surfaces, the poems probe the questions we all ask: What does it mean to have human consciousness in a world that keeps its own counsel? How can we bear the grief of losing what we love? After the Rain is a book lit from within by language that clarifies and distills.
-Chase Twichell, Poet, and author of nine books of poetry, including Northern Spy (1981), and Horses Where Answers Should Have Been (2010).
Season of Dreams: Two Weeks Alone in the Cape Cod Dunes. (Poetry and Photographs), (Brook Hollow Press, 2017).
This collection combines the written word with four folios of striking color photography from a two-week solo residency in the dunes of outer Cape Cod. The work is directly drawn from journals and texts from the time alone, fashioned into a range of startling, sometimes whimsical and always engaging images and reflections.
“If you, like I, have ever dreamt of being alone for a number of days in a cozy shack beside the sea “with two lamps lit in the shack’s windows… out-to-sea and long ago—outside of everything you know,” just open Season of Dreams. Jonathan A. Wright’s inspired photos and exquisite poems will simply take you there. It won’t always be calm. Jonathan tells the story, and the world is better for it.”
-Pat Schneider, founder of Amherst Writers & Artists. She authored many books of poetry, as well as Writing Alone and With Others.
These prior books by Jonathan A. Wright are available in soft cover at Western Massachusetts bookstores and through the Jonathan Arthur Wright Amazon author’s page.