Tom C. Hunley is a professor of English at Western Kentucky University, the director of Steel Toe Books, and the vocalist/rhythm guitarist for Dr. Tom and the Cartoons. He is the author of three previous full-length poetry collections, two textbooks, and six chapbooks. He is the co-editor, with Alexandria Peary, of Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century, forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press. He divides his time between Kansas and Oz.

Other poems by Tom C. Hunley in Verse Daily:
March 15, 2014:   "Scotch Tape World" "Taping my thigh and calf together..."
April 7, 2011:   "Self-Portrait as a Child?s Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" "Often I?m a musical instrument..."
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:
"The House of Hunley"
Five poems
"Moe Szyslak"
"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.