Jack Powers is the author of two poetry collections: Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar (2018) and Still Love (2023). He won the 2015 and 2012 Connecticut River Review Poetry Contests and other awards. He was a finalist for the 2013 and 2014 Rattle Poetry Prizes. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cortland Review and Salamander and his work has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes. 

 “Still Love” is one of those collections of verse that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after the book has been finished and set back upon the shelf.” The Midwest Poetry Review

“Still Love is a reminder that all life stages hold beauty, the the oldest among us were all once children, and that love is anything but still.” Jesse Wright

“The more poems you dig into in “Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar,” the more they dig into you.” Bob Knox

Selected Poems

The God of Stupidity in The Southern Review & Verse-Virtual 

Holy Shitballs! in Rattle

The Body in Connecticut River Review

Counting in Connecticut River Review

Still Love in Coastal Shelf.

Last Act in Clementine Unbound

See the Publications page for links to other poems.