In this new volume of poetry, the award-winning Texas poet who wrote "Rafting the Brazos" joins other poets of the plains who "tell a prairie all they hope it means, / inventing corrals and barns."
In this new volume of poetry, the award-winning Texas poet who wrote "Rafting the Brazos" joins other poets of the plains who "tell a prairie all they...
Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor there from 1975 to 1995, and retired May 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. He was a member of the literature advisory panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts from 1986 to 1988. He won four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and six awards from the Texas Institute of Letters (including the Lon Tinkle...
Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Cr...
