Tom C. Hunley

Rattle Chapbook Prize; Smokelong Quarterly AWP Microfiction Award; WKU Prof; 19 books; 2 produced short films. Follow back, please. I BLOCK ALL SOLICITORS.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@pensandpoison Since you like classic literature, look up what William Blake said about generalizations.

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@pensandpoison

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@QuintusCurtius Who forced you to read The Basketball Diaries? I can't imagine that being part of any curriculum.

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@SmashedEars

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

♦️ Hard truth: I don’t like Myron, but he’s spot on — if Karmelo Anthony loses his trial, too many in the black community and BLM crowd are already priming to burn cities down instead of accepting justice.

Karmelo’s supporters: Y’all need to do the right thing for once. If the evidence shows he’s guilty, own it. Stop turning every self-defense case into a racial martyrdom narrative. No riots. No “mostly peaceful” looting. No excuses.

A kid is dead. Facts over feelings. If the jury says guilty, respect the verdict like everyone else has to. The pattern of rage and destruction when the outcome isn’t what you want has to end.
Cooler heads better prevail — or we all know what’s coming. 😳
#KarmeloAnthony #FriscoTX #JusticeForAustinMetcalf

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@RiekkiRon Way to go, Ron!

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@mwrly82773 @SanSip You're just a tool.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@johnvvariety As Marianne Moore wrote, in a poem called "Poetry,"

"I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.

   Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in

   it after all, a place for the genuine."

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@johnvvariety Follow me back, if you don't mind. I'm a full professor of creative writing and the author of several award-winning poetry collections and some textbooks. I love talking poetry with people who are passionate about it.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@johnvvariety Who made you the language police, John? Gimme a break, bro.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@johnvvariety I've read Olson. I have a Ph.D. in this shit. You didn't understand my previous comment, which was just to say that bad poetry gets forgotten. We think of the past as better because we only have the canonized poems of the past, which we compare to all the poems of the present.

[Principal Jon @Principal_Jon]

In high school I was asked to read:

The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath

My daughter's high school asked her to read:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Have we stopped believing kids can do hard things?

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@johnvvariety ^I'm not sure what you mean, John.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@Kristinartz Star Wars
E.T.

[Tom C. Hunley @HunleyTom]

@Mazelit_ I'm currently working on The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon and Whirl and Vortext by Larry Levis.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Studies show that 100% of countries that don't fire rockets or missiles on Israeli civilians are never attacked by Israel.

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@KingWenclas

[Robert Wilkinson @robertwlk]

40 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me.

All three said no.