September 2012 |
20th anniversary of Senior Poets Laureate poetry competitions |
3--The Diploemat |
Boma stela casa poca timbo |
That night the sky grew shimmering trees |
William Childress, MFA, 79, shown on dust jacket of his 1986 collection of poems Burning the Years and Lobo, has led a successful multi-genre writing life that includes poet/paratrooper in Korea, songwriter/musician, author, teacher, magazine writer, National Geographic editor, and columnist whose Out of the Ozarks column in the St. Louis Post Dispatch< was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He was a sharecropper and cotton-picker between ages 8 and 18. |