I have started out life in Stevenson, Washington, a little logging town in the Columbia River Gorge and have lived all over the west�from Kalispell, Montana, to Los Angeles, California. For the last 35 years I have lived in Nampa, where I teach at Northwest Nazarene University. Some of my favorite courses to teach include Milton and His Age (poetry of the seventeenth century), Twentieth-Century Poetry, and poetry writing courses and workshops.
With my father, I have published a book of poems titled Counterpoint and Inventions: Old and New Poems on Similar Themes. I have published poems in Trestle Creek Review, InPrint, Talking River Review, and other regional periodicals. One of my baseball poems was displayed in the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the opening of a new library wing.
Concerning baseball, I am an avid fan and enjoy watching, listening to, and reading and writing about it. I write about those things that engage me most: baseball, music, Idaho, fishing, family, faith, aging, our cat. My usual response to both good and bad experiences is to write poems about them.
I have three grown (almost grown up) children and three grandchildren. My wife, Evelyn, recently retired from NNU, directs the choir at Southside Boulevard United Methodist Church in which I sing. I am also graciously allowed to read my poems there on a fairly regular basis.
