Yvonne Carpenter
Living on an Oklahoma (USA) wheat farm furnishes most of the material for my writing. My latest adventure was to attend a Cowboy Poetry Festival; an experiment to return poetry to the oral rather than written tradition, which was an eye-opener for me. My goal is to move poetry onto common ground rather than letting it suffocate in pristine isolation.
Using the public library, I read whatever is on the new arrival shelf and devour murder mysteries like chocolate. On my bedstand right now are The Kite Runner, Brother, I’m Dying and The New Kid. Poets I read are Paul Zarzyski and William Carlos Williams.