Pendleton Poetry

09/16/2025

08/08/2020

Check this out, young writers❣️

Skipping Stone Stories offers state-of-the art homeschooling instruction in Language Arts to young authors ages 8-13. Learn from master teachers and published writers to share human experience in the form of exquisitely crafted reading and writing.

07/14/2020

I had the privilege of taking a course withTom Hunley at NKU a few years back. Inspiring teacher. Check out his well-deserved award.

WKU English Professor Dr. Tom Hunley Awarded the Prestigious Rattle Chapbook Prize

Dr. Tom Hunley, a professor of English at Western Kentucky University, has been awarded the prestigious Rattle Chapbook Prize for his collection of poetry Adjusting to the Lights.

Dr. Hunley’s collection consists of poems about raising a teenage son on the autism spectrum and adopting a teenage daughter from state foster care. The title for this collection comes from a poem Dr. Hunley published in the journal crazyhorse, which can be accessed at https://buff.ly/3gT5EzH.

The Rattle Chapbook prize is the premier chapbook contest in the United States. Dr. Hunley will receive an honorarium of $5,000 and his collection will have a minimum of 7,000 copies distributed nationwide. His manuscript was one of only three accepted out of 1,885 entries.

Dr. Hunley has as taught in the WKU English Department’s BA/MFA creative writing program since 2003. He has published six full-length collections of poetry and placed poems in several prominent journals over the past thirty years. He has also written two textbooks and co-edited a third.

05/30/2020

Saturday POETRY Night Live—tonight!

04/23/2020

Thank you Coshocton Public Library System for featuring my poem "Forecast" and Holli Haddix Rainwater for inviting the submission. Your photo is a perfect fit ❣️

"Pandemic Spring: Poems to Get Us Through"
Celebrating National Poetry Month with poems of solace, beauty and connection by Ohio poets.

Today's selection comes from Susan Glassmeyer in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Forecast

It’s here the gray the swollen day
no blue no bright no breakthrough light.

The pressed the hemmed the bruised-up sky
the fist-down cloud the puffed-out eye.

It’s wild the wind-up roar the wind
the funnels flung the din begins.

The rage the rain the sirens sigh
the sidelong pelt the grim howl cry.

The crush the welter’s whim reply
it’s harsh the mayhem death wedge wide.

The loss the jar of blooms the marred
the May the June the longed-for star.

Then calm the birds their song the stay
the blue the bright it’s here the day.


Susan F. Glassmeyer lives just north of Cincinnati between two county parks where the wildlife and the land inspire her poetry.
In 2018, Susan was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Association for her first full collection, Invisible Fish.
In addition to her books, an extensive archive of "April Gifts"—a ten-year poetry project—can be found on her website:
http://www.susanglassmeyer.com

Photo credit: Holli Rainwater