Wayne David Hubbard
About the Poet
Born with a twin sister on May 24, 1982, in Livingston, New Jersey, Wayne David Hubbard joined the Marine Corps in 2000, serving in California, Mississippi, and near Hiroshima, Japan. He began to write poetry in the cities and deserts of Iraq in 2004. In 2005, he left the military for a career in aviation, graduating from Vaughn College of Aeronautics in New York City, and moving to the Shenandoah Valley to become an air traffic controller, guiding planes over the skies of Virginia.
Freedom of movement, a depth of perception, and an appreciation for science permeates his writings. In 2020 he began to submit poems for publication, winning the Button Poetry short form contest, and in the same year, self-published his first book Mobius: Meditations on Home. A full-length collection, Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe, was published in 2022 by Atmosphere Press, with select poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
The following years saw engagements with institutions like the Library of Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, MIT, and Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, where he completed master's studies while giving poetry readings with their English Department. In 2023 Wayne David Hubbard was appointed as the Treasurer of The Poetry Society of Virginia and has since organized and supported nonprofit collaborations for poetry, education, science, and veterans across the state.
Region
Valley
Years of Residence in Virginia
17 years
Current City/State of Residence
Winchester, Virginia
Gender
Male
Race/Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, White
Year of Birth
1982
Keywords/Tags
culture, science, experience
Website
Published Works or Performances
Books:
Mobius: Meditations on Home (2020).
Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe (Atmosphere Press, 2022).
Individual Poems:
"Tigris River - 2004" (DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 2025).
"A Place For Our Feet" (Nature of Our Times, 2024).
"Zazen at Paterson Falls" (Avalon Literature Magazine, 2024).
"In The Round (One & Two): A Jazz Poetry Experience" (2024).
"Writing the Land: Wanderings II & Virginia" (Nature Culture, 2024).
"Aria, No 4, World Without Gymnopédies" (1455 Literary Arts, 2023).
Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe (Atmosphere Press, 2022).
"Fernweh, Notes to a Young Poet" (Dillydoun Review, 2021)"
"the rebellion of sisyphus" (Prometheus Dreaming, 2021).
"Quirank, Columbia, solus" (Eloquent Magazine, 2021).
"Proof of Life, No. 3, How I Might Be Spectacularly Wrong" (Shenandoah Arts Council, 2021).
"equitable distribution of love, Aria, No. 7" (Wild Word Magazine, 2020).
"Wall Street" (Poetry Spoken Here, 2020).
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
Baseball Fibonacci, 2025.
Aerials, 2024.
love poem for sappho, 2020.
Wayne David Hubbard