Joe Wilkins writes as beautifully about the west as his literary grandfathers. -Pam Houston
You can order Joe’s books here or at your local independent bookstore. Below, you can find 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 [Why in the night]” at The Coachella Review
- 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
- “Absence” at Linebreak
- “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food,” at Slate
- “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations” at Contrary
- “Leviathan” at Linebreak
- “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog” at Terrain
- “Route 7 Outside Nacogdoches, Texas” at Blackbird
- “The Names” at Slate
- “The Big Dry, Montana, 1985″ and “The Stone Eater” at diode
Essays
- Selection from “Dry Season” at The Sun
- “Oregon Trail” at Wabash Magazine
- “Down on Mountain Pocket” at High Country News
- Selection from “Bruised” at The Sun
- An editorial at High Country News
- “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
- “The Ditchrider” at TriQuarterly
- Selection from “Boys, Ten In All” at The Sun
- “Say” at The Utne Reader
Interviews and Articles
- A poem and an interview at The Swamp
- An interview at Spoken Words
- A conversation with The Write Question
- A profile at GIA
- “Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins” an introduction and interview at Tupelo Quarterly
- Radio interview with The Write Question on MTPR
- An interview about The Mountain and the Fathers by Scott Gast of Orion Magazine
Video
You can find full text selections of my writing, as well as video and other great stuff, at Digital Commons@Linfield: Where Scholarship Meets Community.