JASON BREDLE
Jason Bredle is a linguist and intellectual property specialist serving the life sciences community. His most recent poetry collection, I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language, was awarded the 2025 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press.
the vines of our passion
through a wood of despair
remember a time we believed
our friends were there
reading our poems
& not tossing them aside
We can do anything we’d like in a poem, and we can express ourselves in ways we can’t elsewhere – certainly not in work emails, we’d lose our jobs. I’m drawn to the control we have as artists and creators, which doesn’t exist elsewhere in our lives.
October 19, 2025
