In 2009 I read a short story called The Noble Truths of Suffering by Aleksander Hemon. This story ranks #2 on my list of all-time favorites. My #1 short story is called Resurrection of a Life by William Saroyan published in 1935. Standing at #3 is a story by Ernest Hemingway entitled A Clean [...]
Updated: July 2026 Books American Odessey | (Forthcoming 2026) Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe | Atmosphere Press (2022) Mobius: Meditations on Home | Amazon (2020) Poetry "Even The Light Has Weight" | Outside The Wire Literary Magazine, Rutgers-Camden Writers House (Apr 2026) "What Did You Do Last Week" | Turtle Island Poetry (Jan 2026) "Afterword" [...]
NEW EVENTS Nov 2026 Barns of Rose Hill | Berryville More to come . . . PAST EVENTS Veterans Poetry Celebration (2026) DC Commission of Arts & Humanities (2025) University of California-Berkeley (2024) Virginia Voices poetry reading (2024) Shenandoah University - Doctoral Plenary Session (2024) [...]
Audio Poetry: Tigris River, 2004 by Wayne David Hubbard Story: I wrote Tigris River in 2024 - the twentieth anniversary of my deployment in the Second Gulf War. After two decades, I have published little on the experience. This changed when last year I was invited to contribute to a veterans art [...]
Audio Poetry: Sonora Keys View by Wayne David Hubbard Story: I carry gardens inside of me. Twenty years ago, it was spring in Iraq. And there was a war. A patch of yellow blooms sprouted near a concrete wall inside my barricaded compound. Between work breaks of filling sandbags and burning waste, [...]
Audio Poetry: Proof of Life, No. 4 The End of Longing by Wayne David Hubbard Essay: I have lost count of the open meadows, woodlands, and farms leveled into new housing and commercial developments. The speed of change in a few short years have rendered whole landscapes unrecognizable. Last year I joined [...]
Saturday, May 11 | 7:30 pm Drum Orpheum Rehearsal Hall Winchester, Virginia Tickets: Events | Drum Orpheum Rehearsal Hall Info: Jazz and poetry come together in an improvisational spoken word and musical performance. This collaboration will happen in-the-round at Drum Orpheum, Winchester's new performing space, owned and operated by jazz drummer Daniel Kelly II. MC: [...]
Writing The Land is a poetry project collaboration between poets and protected lands. I was invited to participate to write poems in support of environmental conservancy for 2024. I was paired with Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve. This protected area forms the southern range of the Blue Ridge mountains on the tri-border of [...]
BOOK LAUNCH & AUTHOR EVENT Saturday, October 8 4:00 - 6:00 pm Winchester Book Gallery 7 N Loudoun Street Winchester, VA 22601 HOW TO PURCHASE Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe is available for pre-order at most places where books are sold: Winchester Book Gallery Bookshop.org Barnes & Noble Amazon Atmosphere Press PRAISE [...]
I made only one New Year's resolution: to memorize a poem entitled The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I reflect on its wisdom for inner balance amid days of dynamic change. The first two stanzas begin: All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with [...]
