Jack Hayes is a poet whose retirement from the workaday world has seen him settle in Portland, Oregon. He lives there with his wife, Sandy Pullella, and their beloved dog Chloe and two equally beloved cats, Curious and Tigress. He writes, reads, practices tai chi to the extent his health allows, and enjoys walks with Sandy and Chloe through their quiet neighborhood, where he literally has a chance to stop and smell the flowers. His life’s trajectory has taken him from an upbringing in rural Vermont to Burlington on Lake Champlain, then to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, to San Francisco, next to rural rangeland in Idaho, finally landing in Portland a dozen years ago. All of these diverse landscapes appear in his poems.
At the University of Vermont, Jack Hayes studied with David Huddle and Alan Broughton. As a Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he received his MFA in 1986, he studied with Charles Wright and Gregory Orr.
Listen to Jack read June 19th from Prayer Wind volume 1 here. Listen to Jack reading Snowfall with Ghosts & Prayer Flags here (also from volume 1).
Prayer Wind is Jack Hayes’ eleventh book of poems and his first to be published by Askance. His previous publications include:
The Days Of Wine & Roses 2008
Nightingales In A Stateside Zoo 2010
The Spring Ghazals 2010
Union Pacific 2012
Ullambana In Portland 2016
Crow On The Wire 2016
The High Lonesome Sound 2017
Sunflower Sky 2017
101 Portland Moons 2019
Home 2020
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