membered for my poems, / any of my poems.”
With images like these from “Scotch Tape World”
of “sunlight hitting / a mountain so hard they
both seem ready to shatter,” Tom C. Hunley has
nothing to worry about as each poem is a new
room in the rock-solid House of Hunley. When
the speaker of “Inside the Belly” asks, “Do you
/ believe there are angels whose whole job / is to
salvage all the fragments, / all our half-finished
efforts?” after finishing Plunk the only possible
answer is yes, yes I do.
William Nesbitt received his Ph.D. in American Literature at Florida State University. His
major area is American Literature after 1875.
He started teaching in higher education in 1999
and has been at Beacon College (exclusively for
students with learning disabilities) for ten years
and has served as the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department for four years. He
teaches and conducts research within a variety
of subject areas including pedagogy, American
literature, Beat literature, African-American
literature, the graphic novel as literature, ecocriticism, and popular culture. He has published
in journals such as Route 7 Review, The Southeast Review, and The Journal of Evolutionary
Psychology.