Writing

Order The Mountain and the Fathers

Order When We Were Birds

Order Notes from the Journey Westward

Order Killing the Murnion Dogs

Order We Had to Go On Living

Order Far Enough

Joe Wilkins writes as beautifully about the west as his literary grandfathers. -Pam Houston

A sampling of work available online:

Poems

• “Explain: Extinct” at The Missouri Review
• “Explain: Wolves” at Linebreak
• Two poems at Diode
• Two poems at Terrain.org
• Three poems at Ecotone
• “The World in Which You Live, Just As it Is” at Ascent 
• “Ragged Point Road [Some twenty miles out]” at Nashville Review
• “Ragged Point Road [Why in the night]” at The Coachella Review
• “Arguing with James Baldwin the Day After the Re-election of Barack Obama” at Codex
• Two poems at Terrain.org 
• “Wish” at Blackbird 
• “Notes from the Journey Westward” at Adroit
• “Eight Letters of Explanation, Acknowledgment, & Apology on the Occasion of My Son’s First Birthday” at Michigan Quarterly Review
• “Eat Stone and Go On” at Tupelo Quarterly 
• “Trotline” at Tupelo Quarterly
• “Reckoning” at Verse Daily
• “Drought” at Orion
• “The Fragments of the World Seek Each Other” at About Place
• Poetry feature at Dialogist
• “On the Beginning of Winter in Some Lost Industrial City of the North River Country” at Escape Into Life 
• “Absence” at Linebreak
• “A Story We Might Follow” at Nashville Review 
• “Encomium, from the Front Porch” at The Puritan
• “Rain Ghazal” at the BLP Blog
• Four poems and an interview at Dahse
• Two poems at iO Poetry 
• “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food,” at Slate 
• “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations” at Contrary
• “Anniversary” at The Adirondack Review
• “The eye of the radio was red, and its round mouth was talking–” at Orion
• “Hayrake” at Beloit Poetry Journal
• “Letter to My Unborn Son Concerning the Peculiarities of Faith” at Shaking
• “Colic” at Conte
• A portfolio of poems at Escape Into Life
• “Memphis Closes Her Eyes” at Black Lawrence Press
• Audio for “Letter to My Son Concerning Our First Night of Birthing Class” at Two Weeks
• “Six Days’ Lament” at Mayday
• “Each Word Holds the World” at Mayday
• “Mission School, 1922: What She Remembered” at Linebreak
• “Notes from the Journey Westward” at Beloit Poetry Journal
• “Leviathan” at Linebreak
• “The Fixt and Random Universe Is Seen to Move” at Orion
• “Then I Packed You up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back” at The Vibrant Word website
• “A Roadside Diner in Iowa” at the BLP Blog
• “Encomium: Highway 49 South” at Linebreak
• “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog” at Terrain
• “Near the End of It, or Six Little Revolutions” and “Spiritual” at Sweet
• “Manifesto” at Evergreen Review
• “Somewhere South of Miles City” at Linebreak
• “Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas” at Blackbird
• “The Names” at Slate
• “The Big Dry, Montana, 1985″ and “The Stone Eater” at diode
• “Meditation on the Treason of His Body” at Broadsided Press
• “Daybreak, Spokane, September 2001“; “Five Dreams from Home“; “Voice of the Father“; and “North Carolina by Greyhound” at Boxcar Poetry Review
• “Furlough” at Stone’s Throw
• “I Go Out and Bring in Bones” and “The Other River” at Pank
• “Houston Sonnet” and “Mississippi Sonnet” at Pank

Essays

• Selection from “Dry Season” at The Sun
• “Oregon Trail” at Wabash Magazine
• When We Were Birds” at Contrary
• An occasional essay North American Review
• Excerpt from “Down on Mountain Pocket” at High Country News 
• Excerpt from “Ending in Visions” at Montana Quarterly 
• “My Mother’s Story, Retold and Annotated” at Briar Cliff Review
• “Celilo Falls,” a radio essay, at Reflections West on MTPR
• “Dream On” at American Cowboy 
• “Night” at Squalorly
• Excerpt from “Bruised” at The Sun 
• An editorial at High Country News 
• “Notes from the Journey Westward Playlist” at Largehearted Boy
• “The Mountain and the Fathers Playlist” at Largehearted Boy
• “Killing the Murnion Dogs Playlist” at Largehearted Boy
• “All the Forces at Work Here” at Brevity
• “Out West” at Orion
• “Of Blood and Bone” at Orion
• “The Book of Water” at Terrain.org
• Excerpt from “Boys” at Ecotone

Fiction

• “Others Who Were Here” at Blood Orange Review
• “Certain Birds” at About Place
• “The Ditchrider” at TriQuarterly
• Excerpt from “Boys, Ten In All” at The Sun
• “Say” at The Utne Reader 
• Excerpt from “Say” at The Sun

Interviews and Articles

• An interview about chapbooks at Speaking of Marvels
• A profile at GIA
• An interview at Brevity
• An interview with Hippocampus
• “Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins” an introduction and interview at Tupelo Quarterly
• Radio interview with The Write Question on MTPR
• Author-to-Author Interview with Brandon Schrand at Brevity 
• An interview with Garrett Dennert of Squalorly 
• An interview about The Mountain and the Fathers by Scott Gast of Orion Magazine
• An interview by Kathryn Levy, Poetry Editor at Dahse
• Yet another short interview for BLP’s National Poetry Month Spotlight
• A first-book interview at iO Poetry
• Another short interview for BLP’s National Poetry Month Spotlight
• A short interview for Black Lawrence Press’s National Poetry Month Spotlight
• An interview by the editors of Broadsided Press
• An interview with Kim Barnes (by me) in the High Country News

Video

• A Reading at the Nicholson Library at Linfield College
• Pam Houston and Joe Wilkins as part of Scott Temple’s Wyld-er-ness Series
• From the William Stafford Centennial Celebration at Linfield College
• Reading from The Mountain and the Fathers at Linfield College
• From Arts Alive of Yamhill County

You can find full text selections of my writing, as well as all sorts of great stuff, at Digital Commons@Linfield: Where Scholarship Meets Community.