This Is the Ship I Used to Be

This book wouldn't be possible without my mom. She's supported me and believed in what I've tried to do throughout my life. Special thanks to all three of the idiots at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry. The community they've created is something special. I'm grateful to have a space where I can be myself and be embraced in all of what that means. To anyone who has ever taken the time to read my work or listen to what I've shared, thank you. I only hope to be able to keep doing this for as long as I'm able to. Gratitude for being a part of my journey helping me walk my path. Biography
Jonathan Humanoid writes poems and is constantly confused. He would like to believe that the writing poetry thing helps with the being confused, but there's no evidence to support this. He writes in the hopes that others will feel less alone by reading his work as he feels less alone by sharing it. Jonathan has had poems published in Freeze Ray, Fight Evil With Poetry - Anthology Volume One, and Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity. He likes making old-school DIY chapbooks and has released three so far called: I Was Never Going to be Normal, How to Accept That Your Words Are Going to Outlive You, and All the Light in Me. The collection This Is the Ship I Used to Be, which explores his experiences with Borderline Personality Disorder, is his first published full-length poetry. Jonathan is grateful to have so many people who love him. He is glad to finally be one of those people. Praise
Jonathan Humanoid offers readers passage on his journey into building and rebuilding a self and a life to be lived. Framing his search for self through metaphors of ships and storms, wreckage, and ghosts, he pulls us toward an understanding of what it means to craft a sense of belonging amidst impermanence.
In spite of its size, the collection explores the subject of self and progression through varying subject matter-navigation and traveling, graveyards and gardening, hunger and cooking, love and loving-with the "this poem used to be" poems charting a circuitous path. This is Margaret's answer not from god, but from an Uber Eats driver who got hungry while waiting.
Never didactic, This Is the Ship I Used to Be is all at once a late-night conversation between friends, philosophical discussions of time and meaning, geeky wordplay, lyrical confessions, and a promise of better to come.
-LeAnne Hunt Jonathan Humanoid's This Is the Ship I Used to Be is a collection filled to the brim with warrior words. The unfinished roads to self-love and reinvention are so beautifully paved in the lines of these powerful poems, edited within an artfully structured narrative arc that takes you on an empowering journey. Humanoid's innovative, accessible poetry will resonate with readers and move them with its courage, humor, heart, and unflinching depth.
-Kevin Ridgeway, author of Invasion of the Shadow People (Luchador Press) The route to healing can be a path of storms, where doubt of survival rears its head. Jonathan Humanoid takes us on a voyage, inviting readers to witness poetry of grief and growth. This Is the Ship I Used to Be is an honest reflection of a soul as it chooses the path of self-love, exploring what it truly means to be oneself in the face of constant change.
-Ellen Webre, author of A Burning Lake of Paper Suns