AE Hines is the author of Adam in the Garden (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry's Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. He received his MFA from Pacific University, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Rattle, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Alaska Quarterly and many other places. After many years living in Portland, Oregon, AE now divides his time between Charlotte, North Carolina and Medellín, Colombia.

Other poems on the web by AE Hines:
"Security Deposit"
"Cervical Stenosis"
"The Devil’s Bartender"

AE Hines's Website.

About Adam in the Garden:

"AE Hines dares to imagine a new Eden, as his speaker finds himself 'middle-aged and queer, ' in poems that weave sound and image into tightly crafted narratives. Whether confronting betrayal and loss, sex and desire, or even environmental collapse, threads of hope and gratitude run throughout these verses, as does the speaker's anxiety about the fragility of what binds. 'Perhaps you too have done this, ' he asks, 'Found yourself awake on the edge // of so much happiness you fear fate / might intervene?' In plain-spoken language, Hines transforms simple, everyday acts into tender and moving lyrics, offering surprising journeys and closing lines that continue to inspire. We find a poet willing to risk sentimentality without collapsing into sentiment. A seeker willing to risk blasphemy in his personal search for truth."
—Dorianne Laux

"AE Hines keeps giving us what we want as readers--to fall through the holes of the everyday into deeper meaning. Playful and adept in their workings, these poems are portals to hidden rooms, fields, galaxies. Even if they begin with pigeon, airplane, beloved, we find ourselves led to the Garden of All Things, the primordial place of loss and desire, taking our own bite of the apple."
—Danusha Laméris