ARTICLES/REVIEWS
"Meet Kern's First Poet Laureate": This profile by Kelly Ardis appeared in the Bakersfield Californian in April, 2016, following my selection as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Kern County.
Here's the link to the Bakersfield Californian
“Planted in the San Joaquin”:While I was in Connecticut for the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize reading in the summer of 2009, I met the journalist Allan Jalon. He was there doing research on the poet C.K. Williams, who was also reading that evening. Jalon got interested in what I was doing, subsequently visited us in Buttonwillow, and wrote this article that appeared in the Sunday LA Times in January 2010.
Here's the link to the LA Times
“An Old Coyote Makes Poetry”:This review appeared in Ruminate, perhaps the best edited Christian literary journal currently published. The author, Thea Gavin of Concordia University in Irvine, has noticed aspects of Everything Barren Will Be Blessed that I haven't, which is an odd feeling.
Here's the link to Ruminate
“There Once Was a Poet From Buttonwillow”:Columnist Herb Benham was in the audience when I read for the Rotary Club. That's rare and pleasantly amusing in itself, but Benham adds his own usual witty response to the occasion.
Here's the link to the Bakersfield Californian
This is another fine review of Everything Barren Will Be Blessed (I wouldn't offer a bad one, would I?) written by blogger Deacon Diane Moore of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. A long way from the San Joaquin, but that just shows that local can (and must) be universal.
Here's the link to Moore.
"Meet Kern's First Poet Laureate": This profile by Kelly Ardis appeared in the Bakersfield Californian in April, 2016, following my selection as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Kern County.
Here's the link to the Bakersfield Californian
“Planted in the San Joaquin”:While I was in Connecticut for the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize reading in the summer of 2009, I met the journalist Allan Jalon. He was there doing research on the poet C.K. Williams, who was also reading that evening. Jalon got interested in what I was doing, subsequently visited us in Buttonwillow, and wrote this article that appeared in the Sunday LA Times in January 2010.
Here's the link to the LA Times
“An Old Coyote Makes Poetry”:This review appeared in Ruminate, perhaps the best edited Christian literary journal currently published. The author, Thea Gavin of Concordia University in Irvine, has noticed aspects of Everything Barren Will Be Blessed that I haven't, which is an odd feeling.
Here's the link to Ruminate
“There Once Was a Poet From Buttonwillow”:Columnist Herb Benham was in the audience when I read for the Rotary Club. That's rare and pleasantly amusing in itself, but Benham adds his own usual witty response to the occasion.
Here's the link to the Bakersfield Californian
This is another fine review of Everything Barren Will Be Blessed (I wouldn't offer a bad one, would I?) written by blogger Deacon Diane Moore of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. A long way from the San Joaquin, but that just shows that local can (and must) be universal.
Here's the link to Moore.