Tag: prairie

• National Poetry Month: Robert Pinsky

  I received the following facebook message last night, from the gallery of distant rogues: “Poesy Month, eh? Where’s the fucking Pinksy (sic), Chuck?” Point taken. An Explanation of America: A Love of Death by Robert Pinsky Imagine a child from Virginia or New Hampshire Alone on the prairie eighty years ago Or more, one afternoon—the…

  JunkChuck

  April 28, 2014

  Poetry, Uncategorized

  america, death, great, month, national, pinsky, plains, poem, poetry, prairie, robert, usa, verse

• West From Chicago…excerpt from another old story

  *this is the final excerpt from what I’ve called the “big truck” series–an abandoned, unfinished road trip novel I lost interest in 17 years ago and recently revisited.  I added it partially in response to posts by our friends over at the excellent Great Plains Trail blog–where they’re building something awesome.  The Great Plains are…

  JunkChuck

  October 29, 2013

  Fiction Excerpt, Uncategorized

  america, blizzard, drought, famine, flat, flood, god, hart, highway, prairie, road, sin, tornado, trip, winter