Jay Hopler’s poems have appeared most recently, or are forthcoming, in The New Republic, Slate and Subtropics. His first book of poems, Green Squall, was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. He has been also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters/the American Academy in Rome. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida and is at work on his second book of poems, The Rooster King.
Nature's Nature
May/June 2017
Swarm
Bees from a cleaved hive dive sky-ward, draw upon the raw, October air a hair shirt, a turret, a portrait of War-wick (the earl of), a single modest opera glove, […]
Poetry
Spring 2007
Hearts of the South
In this place, where even the most humdrum of sunsets is one wild thrum and somersault After another, It is impossible to relax. Even The parakeets, Usually so drowsy at […]
Poetry
Spring 2007
Solar Paraphrase
Even in the moonlight, the oranges on that tree Look like plump, dew- flooded monkeys made Of sun.
Poetry
Spring 2007
The History of Solitude
1. From the tall brown grass a small brown rabbit appears. It moves to the middle of the field and sits, Its ribs clearly visible even in the faint, Uneven […]
Summer 2012
So Many Birds to Kill and So Few Stones
How can a man who owns so little owe so much?
It rains for a while and then it doesn’t. The phone rings. The pipes rattle. A breeze blows and the house settles. And when the cocks come, frugging and a’strut, their gaudy plumage plashing brash against a backdrop of blocked-up cars and vacant lots and bank-owned cottages, their doors knocked heavy-off-the-hinge, one cannot help but flattened be by the persistence of the beautiful thing even in the face of that which will ultimately consume it.
Jay Hopler
Jay Hopler’s poems have appeared most recently, or are forthcoming, in The New Republic, Slate and Subtropics. His first book of poems, Green Squall, was chosen by Louise Glück as […]