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The poems in Don Hogle’s Huddled in the Night Sky lean, as tenderness sprawls in our human togetherness under stars, in rooms and cities, in the landscapes of memory. Hogle’s book is about closeness in all its forms: electric, fleeting, lifelong, sometimes misread, yet unforgettable. It’s about how people gather-against cold, against loneliness, against the dark-and how those moments feel both intimate and vast at once, cosmic in their particulars. Desire isn’t just about sex but about that attention, touch, proximity, and staying.

Ricardo Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment, former president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets.

Reading these sumptuously descriptive yet sweetly vulnerable poems feels at times like discovering a stash of postcards written to former lovers.

Mark Bibbins, author of 13th Balloon

These poems will delight and surprise you. They will stay with you.

Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine

With grace, heartache, and a touch of sass, Don Hogle spins love poems to die for.

Paul Jaskunas, author of Mother Ship and The Atlas of Remedies

Truly an exquisite, tender collection.

Flower Conroy, author of Zoodikers: A Bestiary

Each poem feels both meticulously crafted and tenderly alive, revealing the ache and radiance of connection. This is a book that reminds us how desire, loss, and wonder can coexist in a single breath.

Laura Kasischke, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains

Spanning a rich and active life well-lived, these poems teem with vibrant, vivid language. They show us that an open heart and trust in our senses can restore lost time and our faith in human connection.

Bruce Whitacre, author of Good Housekeeping and The Elk in the Glade

New York City’s gay culture in the 1980s is both background and foreground. A gorgeous collection!

Lee Desrosiers, author of Keeping Planes in the Air, publisher of Naugatuck River Review

I felt uncomfortable in the best of ways. One can’t stop reading once one begins.

Lenny DellaRocca, founding publisher and editor of South Florida Poetry Journal

The poems in Don Hogle’s debut collection consume the reader with love’s heat and delight, the sweat of sex, and the hollow heart of sorrow.

Valentina Gnup, author of Ruined Music

Hogle writes with the brashness and brazenness of Catullus. But where Catullus wrote about his present, Hogle writes about his past with Proustian nostalgia and poignancy; a lover’s nipples can be his sweet madeleine, and the smoothness, tactile pleasures of a lover’s body are replicated mimetically by the musicality and muscularity of his language.

Patrick Cotter, author of Quality Control at the Miracle Factory

Huddled in the Night Sky is nothing less than a visitation, a lifting of the veil between now and then.

Kathryn Jordan, author of Riding Waves

These poems dance in quiet and then explode. Each poem feels like a map of the heart gone quietly wild-marked by longing, connection, and the realization that, sometimes, all one needs to do is take off one’s clothes and boogie.

Matthew Lippman, author of We Are All Sleeping with Our Sneakers On

Don Hogle’s new volume of poetry gives voice to those Huddled in the Night Sky, souls pursuing their desire to indulge pleasure and bankrupt loneliness.

Mike Lewis-Beck, author of Shorter and Sweeter

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