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John Oliver Simon (born 1942 New York City, New York) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and educator.

Life and career
John Oliver Simon was born in New York City and raised in California. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1964) and University of California, Berkeley originally intending to be a professor of English. Simon later joined California Poets in the Schools and worked as their executive director. He now serves as the artistic director for Poetry Inside Out, a program of the nonprofit Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco.

Simon's books of poetry include Roads to Dawn Lake (Oyez, 1968), Rattlesnake Grass (Hanging Loose, 1976), Neither of Us Can Break the Other's Hold (Shameless Hussy, 1982), Lord of the House of Dawn (Bombshelter, 1991), and Caminante (Creative Arts, fall 2001). His books of translation include Velocities of the Possible (Red Dragonfly Press, 2000), From the Lightning (Green Integer, 2008), Ghosts of the Palace of Blue Tiles (Tameme, 2008), and Seen and Unseen (Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2008). Simon's poetry and translations been anthologized in Más de dos siglos de poesía norteamericana (Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, 1993), Light from a Nearby Window (City Lights, 1993), ''Berkeley! A Literary Tribute (Heyday Books, 1997), Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry (Tsunami Inc., 1998), Reversible Monuments (Copper Canyon, 2002), The Addison Street Anthology (Heyday Books, 2004), new world / new words (Two Lines, 2007), and Hotel Lauréamont'' (Shearsman, 2011), as well as journals such as RATTLE, Redactions, and Weave Magazine.

Simon has edited numerous anthologies of children's writing, as well as contemporary poetry and the poetry of prisoners. He is also a contributing editor to the literary review and events calendar Poetry Flash. In 2013, Simon was named Teacher of the Year by River of Words, an international network co-founded by poet laureate Robert Hass that promotes environmental literacy through teaching place-based art and poetry to youth.

Honors and awards

 * 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Translation
 * 2013 River of Words Teacher of the Year