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Oklahoma Poetry from a
Native Son
2011 Reading Schedule:

Mar. 19   3:30 PM      Hastings Bookstore
                                   Sherman, Texas
Mar. 25   
6:30 PM       Hot Shots Coffee
                                   Durant, Oklahoma
Apr. 2      
1:00 PM      Scissortail Writers Festival
                                    ECU Ada, Oklahoma
Apr. 14    
7:00 PM       Colbert High School
                                    Colbert, Oklahoma
May 10    
6:00 PM       Choctaw County Library
                                     Hugo, Oklahoma
June  7    
7:30 PM        Duncan Public Library
                                     Duncan, Oklahoma
July 15     
7:00 PM       Istvan Art Galleries
                                     1218 North Western Ave
                                    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 16   
7:00 PM         T-Bones Bar and Grill
                                     Denison, Texas
Aug. 21  
11:15 AM        Red River Unitarian
                                     Universalist Church
                                     Denison, Texas
Sept. 29
 2:00               Full Circle Books
                                    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oct. 15   
2:15               Colbert Heritage Day
                                    Colbert, Oklahoma

Oct. 28  
6:30               Hot Shots Coffee
                                     Durant, Ok

Nov.   3   
5:00              SE Native American   
                                    Symposiun
                                    SOSU - Student Union
                                    Durant, Oklahoma
Howard Starks
Poetry Books are
on our Books and
Music page
I am honored to win the The Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc.  2011 Best Book of Poetry Award
for
Oklahoma Cantos.

My new book,
Oklahoma Cantos, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Oklahoma Book Awards
but the winner was Benjamin Myers Elegy for Trains, an excellent work by an excellent poet.
Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday was among the finalists who didn't win in 2010 so I'm at
least in good company, and Howard Starks, my mentor lost in 1997. It was my honor to be a
finalist for the second time in five years. Guess I'll have to win it next year, huh? LOL

I read Saturday, April 2nd, in Estep Auditorium at the Scissortail Writer's Festival at East Central
University in Ada, Oklahoma just before the Grand Finale with Ms. Billie Letts reading right after
me. My buddy, Chuck  Ladd read earlier that morning from Howard Starks' book
Family Album .
Ken Hada always hosts a great festival, can't wait for next year.







          

Great write up in The Durant Daily Democrat Sunday December 6th, 2009: Tiara Blue did an
excellent job. Only my own communication skills left a need for a couple of corrections. My most
excellent publisher Jim Furber at TJMFPublishing isn't mentioned and he's chiefly responsible
for all my books in print so far. My scholarship offer was at Carl Albert JC rather than
Southeastern, but I like the idea of a SE Baseball scholarship so I may keep that in the bio.