Coming your way this august!
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The first literary journal that aims to provide a home for the best essays, stories, and poems that take their inspiration from wild places where there are no roads. DW 1 will feature the work of thirty-three writers, as well as a full-color excerpt from an illustrated trail journal and a beautiful cover by wildlands watercolor artist Andie Thrams. To learn more about Deep Wild and to make a donation to our month-of-May Kickstarter funding campaign, visit:
Deep Wild Journal: Writing from the Backcountry $20 earns you a copy of our first issue, and our undying thanks! |
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Recently published
GOING DOWN GRAND: Poems from the Canyon
edited by Peter Anderson and Rick Kempa
GOING DOWN GRAND: Poems from the Canyon
edited by Peter Anderson and Rick Kempa
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Going Down Grand, the first full-length collection of work about the Grand Canyon, gathers the voices of over sixty writers, past and present, to bear witness to this magnificent place.
To order, please visit Lithic Press. Also available on Amazon. Links to reviews: Boatman's Quarterly, Entropy Magazine, Plants & Rocks, Western Wyoming College. |
On Foot : Grand canyon Backpacking Stories
Twenty-seven writers offer
tales of adventure, discovery,
danger, and deep solitude
in this first-ever anthology
devoted to the Grand Canyon
backpacking experience.
To order, visit Vishnu Temple Press
tales of adventure, discovery,
danger, and deep solitude
in this first-ever anthology
devoted to the Grand Canyon
backpacking experience.
To order, visit Vishnu Temple Press
power places
SOME links to published work:
"Fly It At Half Mast Always," a poem about our true "national emergency," from New Verse News
"Going Home Road, Road Away from Home." Here’s something from the Golden Age of Hitchhiking—the story of a stretch of road, I-17 Tucson to Flag, recently written for Trampset, “a literary journal for the tramps.”
"Urban Heights," about a childhood spent on the school roof in the old neighborhood of Chicago, "a playground fit for princes, a garden of the gods." From Under One Sun
"Going Home Road, Road Away from Home." Here’s something from the Golden Age of Hitchhiking—the story of a stretch of road, I-17 Tucson to Flag, recently written for Trampset, “a literary journal for the tramps.”
"Urban Heights," about a childhood spent on the school roof in the old neighborhood of Chicago, "a playground fit for princes, a garden of the gods." From Under One Sun
“Lost Fathers,” “My son and I are shooting baskets on the playground near our home when a voice booms out from the fringe: ‘Hey, I’m gonna play too!’” From Santa Fe Literary Review.
"Bailing Out," wherein I relate a tale of abject terror from my hitchhiking career. From Pithead Chapel
"Tale of a Tent," Once I had a tent, the Taj Mahal I called it, that wanted more than anything to fly. From Watershed Review.
“Nothing Between Us Now But Love.” “My mother and I are working our way down to Moab, where I will be leaving her in the care of my brother.” From Hippocampus Magazine
"The Rules," stranded in Winnemucca in a snowstorm, December 1980, "with one glove for our four hands" From Topology
"One Set of Prints for Two," an account of a time of unsurpassing peace on a pre-dawn walk with my daughter decades ago. From The Drowning Gull
"Honing the Edge," from Blue Lyra Review, that expresses the mindset I am taking into my seventh decade. "Risk is wholesome, and it is freeing; to be fully alive requires it."
"Eddie and Me," a tale of attraction, betrayal and the ultimate triumph from the trenches of the all-boys Catholic high school of my youth, from BioStories Magazine
Here's two nice calm poems, "Be, Be, Buddha Said" and "In the Evening the Two of Us, from Buddhist Poetry Review
Something from the "When Will I Ever Learn?" Department: "On Static Peak," from Watershed Review, about a dicey moment high up in the Tetons one summer morning
Something from the "When Will I Ever Learn?" Department: "On Static Peak," from Watershed Review, about a dicey moment high up in the Tetons one summer morning
ON YOU TUBE
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Macomb Community College Day of Poetry,
Detroit, Michigan, 2013 |
Books, Blues, and Brews Festival, Rock Springs, WY, Fall 2013
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