Jared Harél is the author, most recently, of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject, which won the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2023). He's been awarded the 'Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize' from American Poetry Review, as well as the 'William Matthews Poetry Prize' from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél's poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review and The Sun. He teaches writing, plays drums, and lives in Westchester, NY with his wife and two kids.

Other poems by Poet Name in Verse Daily:
July 9, 2018:   "Local News" "Terrified we'd die happy and rich..."

Other poems on the web by Jared Harél:
"January 20, 2021"
"Sad Rollercoaster"
Two poems
Two poems
"Elegy for Recycled Encyclopedias"
"The Sweet Spot"
Two poems
"On Suffering"
"A Childhood of Nannies"

Jared Harél's Website.

Jared Harél on Twitter.

About Let Our Bodies Change the Subject:

"This life, Jared Harél says, is a sad rollercoaster, all of us with our arms up, screaming on the way down. Thwarted desires, the many losses, school shootings, bomb museums, plague, all seen through the eyes of parents and children. Even so, there are 'sorbet-colored koi' in a pond, a daughter singing, a father donating blood to the Red Cross, sea stars, morning prayers before work with Tefillin in sweatpants and socks. This book was written with, what Czeslaw Milosz is quoted as saying, 'compassion for others entangled in the flesh.'"
—Dorianne Laux

"Meet Death in the guise of family, Desire in the kitchen, Lost Love in the driveway, Terror in an old truck, and Misfortune in waking up. Each clear and short poem deals with The Unimaginable and imagines it. How can anyone not need this book?"
—Hilda Raz

"Jared Harél explores the fullness of family—what it's like to be a parent, with gun violence, hate, and disease lurking in the shadows but also awe and joy, and what it's like to be a brother, a husband, a son, and holy skeptic. These poems—simple and heavy at the same time, smooth with crisp images—will bring you closer to yourself and the people you love."
—Jeffrey McDaniel