The pastoral poems of Shared Spaces explore people, location, events, critters, and time, through which run a common connection reflecting both community and conflict, and the consciousness of specific life cycles at various points. Technically the poems mix traditional free verse with Japanese haibun, melding together both form and the overall awareness and unity of place.

Roger Jones is a member of the Master of Fine Arts poetry program at Texas State University, and has taught at the university since 1987. He has published three poetry collections from Texas Review Press: Remembering New London (1981), Strata (1993), and Are We There Yet? (2008). His chapbook Familial was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press. An electronic chapbook of Japanese haibun, Goodbyewas awarded the Snapshot Press e-chapbook award in 2012 and was published in 2017. His poems have been published in various journals since the 1970s. He is married with two children, and lives in New Braunfels, Texas.