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Ian C. Hammon

Ian Hammon was a high school theater kid, performing on stage in productions at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. In college, he majored in biology and minored in religious studies but developed a passion for writing that never went away. Since graduating Vanderbilt University (B.S., 1994), Ian has devoted himself to various genres in his writing projects, including autobiography, poetry, and short fiction. He has performed his poetry throughout the Triad of piedmont North Carolina.

Ian continues his creative work from his home in Greensboro, NC, appearing at poetry events throughout the Piedmont Triad.

Currently in Print

Crumbs Beneath the Table, 2025

Ian's 2025 collection of poems, Crumbs, is resounds with both whispers and roars from the poet's heart, head, and soul.

The title and the cover photo were inspired by the legend of Don Juan: the dinner guest is a stone statue-ghost of a father-victim of the Don’s — arriving not to sup congenially but to damn a heartless Don with hellish deserts. As the title of the present volume indicates, the poems within are invitations to a banquet of what lies unseen in the photo, perhaps unseeable all together: crumbs of transformation and upliftment. —The Editor

Current availability:

   ISBN: 978-196895200-6

   Paperback & Kindle ebook sales: Amazon

   Ingram: available soon

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Poem for today:

Nothing Like the Sun
Ian C. Hammon
  • My mind has erected such a form
  • My lover's shape does not recapitulate.
  • Such figures that cause me to be warm
  • Is not what I see in my mate.
  • Flights of fancy distract my mind
  • That holds not my love in view.
  • I constantly search, but do not find
  • What I seek, no matter what I do.
  • Her dance does not rise above the earth
  • It is in the dirt that we both commune.
  • Her care engenders second birth;
  • I fear I cannot learn too soon
  • The lesson which strikes at my heart,
  • Where I do end, there love does start.

  • ©Ian C. Hammon

  • Available at Amazon in: Crumbs Beneath the Table


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