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Poetics Presents

Jim Hatfield

Born in 1941, Jim Hatfield is a former television writer-producer who now writes corporate videos and speeches. Father of two grown sons, he lives in a Chicago suburb with his wife, Jane, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Lucy. Jim wrote "Poets at Work" as a student in WVU's Introduction to Poetry. He's grateful to Co-facilitators Glennis Hobbs and Harry Hobbs, and his classmates, who helped him polish it.

Poets at Work Like restless coonhounds beneath a tree, Poets keep journals doggedly, Scribbling copious cryptic notes, Colors, smells, even jokes. With wagging pen, restless nose, They sit and scratch, then compose Lines that scan and sometimes rhyme, Bark, bay, yip and whine, But mainly show new ways to see, What others view so commonly. Copyright © 2001 Jim Hatfield