Tom 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 the 2020 Smokelong Quarterly AWP Microfiction Award. What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems is just out from C&R Press.

Other poems by Tom 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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Other poems on the web by 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"

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