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Today's poem is "Loving The Traumatized Teen While She's Acting Out"

from Gargoyle

Tom C. Hunley won the Rattle Chapbook Prize in 2020, and in 2021 C&R Press released What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems. He directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at Western Kentucky University, where he has taught since 2003.

Other poems by Tom C. Hunley in Verse Daily:
December 7, 2021:   "If You've Met One Autistic Person, You've Met One Autistic Person" "My son's the only person that I know..."
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 Gargoyle:


Gargoyle * 3819 North 13th Street * Arlington, VA 22201
Editor: Richard Peabody
Other poems by Gargoyle in Verse Daily:
April 10, 2009:   "Elegy for My Sex Life " by Karen Kovacik
April 8, 2009:   "Shell" by Joan Colby
April 7, 2009:   "The Crinolines" by Judith Skillman
October 10, 2003:  "Trespass" by Timothy Liu
October 8, 2003:  "College" by Adrienne Su
August 14, 2003:  "Somnambulist" by Katherine Soniat

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