October 19, 2025

Jason Bredle

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

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

POEMS 

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.

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