I’m Carey Jobe, a poet, classicist, world traveler, and retired attorney.

Welcome to my website, where I’ve assembled my published poetry, as well as translations and essays on poetic topics.

A native Tennessean, I now live and write among the pineflats, spring-fed rivers and windswept beaches of the Big Bend region of Florida.

I began writing poetry as a teenager, published my first poem at age 22, and never abandoned my love of poetry, even though creative writing had to take second place to my challenging legal career as an Army JAG officer in Germany, an attorney advisor with a federal agency, and as a United States Administrative Law Judge.

Happily, after retiring from public service a few years ago, I was walking in a park when, unexpectedly, a poem began forming in my mind.  Since that day, I’ve experienced a personal Renaissance, a rebirth of my lifelong love of poetry, both writing my own poems and translating and discussing works of the great poets of the past.   

Whoever you are and whatever your literary interests might be, I’m glad you stopped by.  I welcome you to look over my website.  I hope you enjoy your visit!