Paul Hunter

Paul Hunter's (p. )poems have appeared in numerous journals, as well as nine full-length books and four chapbooks. His first collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground (2004, Silverfish Review Press) was reviewed in The New York Times and received the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second farming volume, Ripening, appeared in 2007, a third volume, Come the Harvest, followed in 2008, and the fourth, from the same publisher, Stubble Field, appeared in 2012. He has been a featured poet on...See more

Paul Hunter's (p. )poems have appeared in numerous journals, as well as nine full-length books and four chapbooks. His first collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground (2004, Silverfish Review Press) was reviewed in The New York Times and received the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second farming volume, Ripening, appeared in 2007, a third volume, Come the Harvest, followed in 2008, and the fourth, from the same publisher, Stubble Field, appeared in 2012. He has been a featured poet on The News Hour, and has a prose book on small-scale, sustainable farming, One Seed to Another, from the Small Farmer's Journal. An autobiography in prose poetry, Clownery, appeared in 2017, and two western novels, Sit a Tall Horse and Mr. Brick & the Boys, were published in 2020 and 2022, from Davila Art & Books, in Sisters, Oregon. See less