All at Once

by Jack Ridl

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2024

About the author

Jack Ridl born on April the 10th of 1944, is an American poet, and was a professor of English at Hope College,

Ridl's father, Charles "Buzz" Ridl, coached basketball at Westminster College, Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. Ridl graduated from Westminster College, Pennsylvania with a BA and M.Ed., in 1970. He lives in Laketown Township, Michigan, with his wife, Julie.

His work has appeared in LIT, The Georgia Review, FIELD, Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Chelsea, Free Lunch, The Journal, Passages North, Dunes Review, and Poetry East. Hope College has named its Visiting Writers Series for him.

Reviews

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read these poems. And then read them again.

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This deeply moving, yet quiet, book shows us our own humanness and the importance of taking time for little things. By turns heart-rending and heart-warming, it encapsulates the contradictions of being alive and aware

[Craig Tommola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always Jack.
“But the other held on.”