About Tom C. Hunley and National Poetry Review

Today's poem is "Self-Portrait as a Child’s Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator"

from National Poetry Review

Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. Among his books are Tom C. Hunley Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2010, Poets Invitational Series), Octopus (Logan House, 2008, Winner of the Holland Prize), Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach (Multilingual Matters LTD., 2007, New Writing Viewpoints Series), and My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove, 2005, winner of national chapbook contest).
Other poems by Tom C. Hunley in Verse Daily:
April 10, 2010: "Slow Dance Music" "I can't explain the rain's attraction to my head..."
December 7, 2008: "Elegy for Robert Creeley and Pope John Paul II, Dead Three Days Apart" "Something dramatic is going to happen to me soon...."
August 29, 2006: "At The End Of A Long And Varied Career" " As a child, I rang doorbells and ran off..."
Books by Tom C. Hunley:

Other poems on the web by Tom C. Hunley:
"At My Twenty-Year High School Reunion"
"Fantasia"
Twelve poems
Four poems
"My First Car"
"God in the Cheese"
"Um"
Three poems
"Death and Other Dirty Jokes"
Tom C. Hunley's Website.
About The National Poetry Review:

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Other poems from The National Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
April 4, 2011: "Ghosts" by Amy Graziano
March 26, 2010: "Just the Ones" by Dan Kaplan
March 17, 2010: "Skandha" by Michael Meyerhofer
March 16, 2010: "Southhampton turned Suffer into Suffolk" by y madrone
March 4, 2009: "L’art D’aimer" by Teresa Chuc Dowell
March 2, 2009: "Dear Succubus" by Lee Upton
February 26, 2009: "Legitimacy Is So Chummy" by J. P. Dancing Bear
February 24, 2009: "Self-Portrait with Taxidermy" by Oliver de la Paz
February 23, 2009: "Dog Moon" by Dorianne Laux
November 16, 2007: "Why Dogs Tell Stories" by Cathryn Essinger
November 14, 2007: "Lazy Eye" by Lesley Wheeler
November 13, 2007: "Poem Starting with a Line by Jason Bredle" by J. P. Dancing Bear
November 12, 2007: "Chipmunk Squirrel Costume Party" by Jason Bredle
October 20, 2006: "What Feathers Are For" by Ann Lauinger
October 19, 2006: "The Trouble with Hammers" by Michael Meyerhofer
October 17, 2006: "Calling T. From the Cultural Wasteland" by Tara Bray
October 16, 2006: "At Last, Fire Seen As a Psychotic Break" by Sarah Hannah
February 3, 2006: "The Comfort of Strangers" by Jeffrey Levine
January 30, 2006: "Deep Sea Dantesca" by Carol Quinn
January 27, 2006: "Hibernaculum" and "Or," by Bridget Cross
January 24, 2006: "Pertinacious Seedheads" by Michelle Boisseau
June 28, 2005: "West Nile" by J. P. Dancing Bear
June 23, 2005: "Tell The Time" Theodore Worozbyt
June 22, 2005: "Three Boats, One Afternoon" Jennifer Michael Hecht
June 21, 2005: "The Personal Touch" Bob Hicok
December 27, 2004: "The Compost Heap" by A. E. Stallings
December 22, 2004: "Against Elegies" by M. B. McLatchey
December 21, 2004: "On Starlings" by Tara Bray
December 20, 2004: "Elephant" by Emily Rosko
April 16, 2004: "To a Friend Unable to Write" by Lynne Knight
April 15, 2004: "Nursery Shellgame" by Diane Thiel
April 14, 2004: "Lilith" by A. E. Stallings
April 12, 2004: "The Tree Frog" by C. Dale Young
August 8, 2003: "Island Myths" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 7, 2003: "Pushkin and the Black Sea" by Diane Thiel
August 5, 2003: "Betta Splendens" by Ellen Kirvin Dudis
August 4, 2003: "A Bone to Pick with You" by A. E. Stallings

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