So late with this, but wanted to share a recent poem, “Explain: Extinct,” which was up at The Missouri Review‘s Poem of the Week feature this last fall.
Tag: Joe Wilkins
Essays in Orion and Riverteeth
I’ve got new essays in recent issues of Orion and Riverteeth. Both grow out of our time down on the Rogue, time which seems to matter more and more as the days recede.
Another Essay in The Sun
I’m late getting this up, but I have an essay, “Dry Season“–all about landscape, choice, and generations–in the October issue of The Sun. You can only read a selection online, but if you don’t subscribe to The Sun, well, you should.
Linfield Live
So pleased to be part of the amazing Readings at the Nick at Linfield College. And now they’re streaming readings live and archiving them! You can check it out here.
The Write Question
This summer, while traveling all over Oregon, Washington, and Montana to read from When We Were Birds, I got the chance to speak with The Write Question about poetry and life and making sense of life through poetry. The Write Question, hosted by Cherie Newman, is a really fabulous NPR show and podcast; if you don’t listen or subscribe, you should!
Review of When We Were Birds
Geez. This review. Kind, wise, a poem in its own right. Thanks, Melissa Mylchreest.
Joe Wilkins’ words unspool down the page like the highway runs off forever into the empty spaces of Montana’s Big Dry, the eastern reaches of the state where he was born and raised. Populated by chokecherry, dry riverbeds, overgrown roadside ditches, lean cattle and leaner people, his books—poetry, nonfiction and fiction—all speak of a world that is scarred, broken, damaged and dusty, but never irredeemable and never without beauty.
Come Study With Me at Fishtrap
Looking for a summer writing conference? It doesn’t get much better than Fishtrap. Mountains, beautiful waters, and loads of talented, generous writers, including Justin Hocking, Laura Pritchett, Marjorie Sandor, Erika L. Sanchez, Robert Michael Pyle, and more. I’ll be teaching a poetry craft class/workshop this summer at Fishtrap, The Landscape of the Poem: From Eden to Frontier, and I’d love to have you!
Two Poems at Diode
Going to California
Last time I had a chance to hang out with Sy and everyone at The Sun Magazine, they let me know they’d voted me “Sun Contributor Most Likely to Own a Pickup.” Smart folks. Sure excited to get a chance to join them in Big Sur this weekend as part of the faculty at Into the Fire: The Sun Celebrates Personal Writing.
Review of Far Enough
A big thanks to Scott McMillion, Craig Lancaster, and, especially, Elise Atchison for a wonderful review of Far Enough in The Montana Quarterly. And it feels pretty good to be following Tom McGuane in the book review section as well!
Here’s a bit from the end of the review:
Wilkins writes about rural Montana with the same brilliance and precision as Ivan Doig or Wallace Stegner. His lyrical descriptions and evocative imagery make for a jaw-droppingly beautiful book. There is a mysterious alchemy that takes place when beautiful language is mixed with the dust and blood of hardscrabble lives. In Far Enough we are left with pure gold.
