Brother Coyote Publications

Unless a writer is the original genius at penning words to the page, all writers grow and change over time, adapt their style as they grow. Not being said original genius, I find my style  of writing hanging over time, part of which has to do with influences I come across. Fifty years ago, when I was staring tout writing poetry, and some short stories, my influences derived of Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry. Satirists, and very influential for me. That influence was front and center when I wrote my satirical memoir "Marinating in Dream Sauce". Fairly subtle satire, I was not out front with the satirical points. Recently, I came across a writer that's been around for a long time, but unknown to me, until now. Terry Pratchett. A gonzo satirist with an outlandishly succulent style of writing. As Alfred Stieglitz posited to his followers, his theory of "Equivalence". That being an equal quality comparatively between genres, such as a fine print, equally, to a fine piec...

  My earliest writing is my poetry. That dates back to 1971. It is also the first two books I published in 2010; two books with two collections of poetry in each. The first book contains my oldest poetry, sans a few of the love poems, the Rod McKuen, Lois Wyse type, during my first marriage. Well, that's out of the way now. The rest of the poetry has to do with social issues, some in reference to the Dust Bowl Days, lost farms, people in close spaces, youth in their wiles, that sort of thing. The second book of poems was written while I was in Mexico, first time around, alone, visiting to test the waters, with the second trip south with the woman who would later become my wife, living in in a tiny village a few miles south of Puerto Vallarta, in 1997-98. Different style, more cerebral, less intuitive heart, as it turns out. Different, yet from the same instincts. Both of these books have been listed on Amazon for these past fourteen years, and what I have learned over that time...