About Tom C. Hunley and Rattle

Today's poem is "If You've Met One Autistic Person, You've Met One Autistic Person"

from Rattle

Tom C. Hunley directs the MFA Creative Writing program at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003. He won the 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and in 2021, C&R Press released What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems.
Other poems by Tom C. Hunley in Verse Daily:
January 25, 2021: "The Last Time I Took My Son To The Movies" "We saw Wonder, the story of a boy..."
July 28, 2020: "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." "Many things are strange...."
March 26, 2018: "Surrounded By Aliens" "Who isn't a baby in a blanket..."
May 2, 2016: "Men Are From Marvel; Women Are From DC" "Worst. Therapy. Couch. Ever. I got off..."
June 25 2015: "Self-Portrait as a Child's Stick Figure Drawing on a Refrigerator" "Often I'm a musical instrument..."
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:
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Tom C. Hunley:
Three poems
"he Last Time I Took My Son To The Movies"
Three poems
Four poems
"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"
About Rattle:

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Other poems by Rattle in Verse Daily:
September 17, 2021: "This Is What Life Does" by Marjorie Saiser
September 16, 2021: "Fat Girl Trilonnet" by Stephanie Rogers
January 24, 2021: "Homestead" by Alice Pettway
January 23, 2020: "Lockdown Puzzle: Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by A. E. Stallings
January 22, 2020: "Because Wolves Are A Protected Species, This One Is Merely Interrogated" by Ron Koertge
October 28, 2020: "Note to Self" by David Mason
October 27, 2020: "Poetry Workshop" by Vivian Shipley
October 26, 2020: "My Love, Though the Smart Speaker Is Spying on Us" by Jeffrey Morgan
July 29, 2020: "Asterisks" by Martin Vest
July 28, 2020: "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." by Tom C. Hunley
July 27, 2020: "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" by Lynne Knight
May 25, 2020: "Triolets on a Dune Shack" by Carolyne Wright
May 23, 2020: "The Cow I Didn't Eat" by Lollie Butler
May 22, 2020: "Chernobyl" by George Bilgere
November 25, 2019: "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country..." by Chaun Ballard
October 24, 2019: "What My Children Remember" by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
October 23, 2019: "Chasing Home" by Ifeoluwa Ayandele
October 22, 2019: "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019: "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019: "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019: "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017: "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017: "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016: "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
November 29, 2016: "Redress" by Wendy Videlock
April 5, 2016: "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
April 3, 2016: "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
January 17, 2016: "'It's Been a Week" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 16, 2015: "Lorazepam" by Sam Sax
August 10, 2014: "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker
August 9, 2014: "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013: "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
November 5, 2013: "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift
November 4, 2013: "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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