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One Week Left!

Posted on July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

One week left to enter the Goodreads giveaway for a signed copy of The Mountain and the Fathers!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Mountain and the Fathers

by Joe Wilkins

Giveaway ends July 10, 2012.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Kind Words from David Gessner

Posted on July 2, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

Some kind words from environmental writer and all-around literary superstar David Gessner today, over at the blog he shares with Bill Roorbach, Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour. Thanks, David!

No one combines the personal and the natural better than Joe Wilkins. He’s a hero of mine and will be your hero, too, if you read his new memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, just out from Counterpoint.

Upcoming Readings

Posted on June 19, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

I’ll be on the road this late summer and fall, reading from The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the Murnion Dogs.

The Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, Montana

7:00 pm, Tuesday, July 17

Barnes & Noble, Billings, Montana

7:30 pm, Thursday, July 19

Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, Washington

2:00 pm, Saturday, July 21

Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, Montana

October 4-6

Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Tuesday, October 16

Elk River Books, Livingston, Montana

Thursday, October 17

High Plains Book Fest, Billings Montana

October 18-19

Goodreads Giveaway!

Posted on June 18, 2012June 18, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Mountain and the Fathers

by Joe Wilkins

Giveaway ends July 10, 2012.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Interview at the Orion’s Blog

Posted on June 12, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

Thanks to Scott Gast for the great interview about The Mountains and the Fathers. Here’s a short excerpt:

In the book’s prologue, you write, “In story we learn to live like human beings in the dark houses of our bodies.” I love that line—it’s the kind of sentence I’m tempted to write down, tear from my notebook, and pin on the wall. Can you say a bit about the power of story in your life?

My grandfather was a wonderful teller of tales. After Sunday dinner we’d all sit in the front room and read and talk until late. And no matter the topic at hand, my grandfather had a story for it, a story that deepened or turned or somehow complicated the conversation. There were seldom any morals, seldom any clear arguments or ideas. Yet the stories mattered; they were full of things to think on, to wonder at and hold close. And I did. I carried and still carry my grandfather’s stories.

“All Apologies” in The Southern Review

Posted on May 29, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

My essay “All Apologies” is featured in the Spring 2012 issue of The Southern Review, which is, for my money, one of the best literary magazines in the country. Poetry Editor Jessica Faust had this to say about my essay:

Joe Wilkins, who sometimes contributes poetry to our pages, but this time has provided us with an honest and touching essay, “All Apologies,” writes about his relationship in high school with a friend named Justin, whose troubled family life eventually pushed him out town. The essay brilliantly captures the complexity of this moment in adolescence while also seamlessly weaving in the contemporary details of the era, grounded in Kurt Cobain’s lyrics, the words of another troubled soul whose genius would come to a tragic, too-soon close.

High Plains Book Award

Posted on May 29, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

More good news! Killing the Murnion Dogs has been named a finalist for the 2012 High Plains Book Award in Poetry. The book festival and banquet, where they’ll announce the winner, will take place this coming October in Billings, Montana.

Finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize

Posted on May 29, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

Very pleased to see that Killing the Murnion Dogs was named a finalist for the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize. Next spring I’ll read with winner Dorianne Laux and fellow finalists Wanda Coleman, Martin Espada, Rachel Richardson, and Jason Schossler at the Poetry Center at Passaic Community College in Paterson, New Jersey

Killing the Murnion Dogs Reviewed at Newpages

Posted on April 25, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

I’m a little late getting this posted, but review David Breithaupt has some lovely things to say about Killing the Murnion Dogs over at Newpages. From the review:

At his best, Wilkins recalls the rural flavor of Wendell Berry, but in a world all his own. Read him. This is your life; wrap your cracked hands around this book.

New Poem at Mid-American Review

Posted on April 19, 2012April 20, 2012 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

My poem “Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see” is up in the latest issue of the wonderful Mid-American Review, along with great new work by Claire McQuerry and Michael Robins.