Gerald Wagoner in conversation with other local poets at Fact & Fiction

Gerald Wagoner is the author of When Nothing Wild Remains, (Broadstone Books,September 2023), and A Month of Someday, (Indolent Books, March 2023) .

Gerald’s childhood was divided between Eastern Oregon and Montana where he was raised under the doctrine of benign neglect.

About Gerald’s poems, Ken Hada wrote in “World Literature Today” : “Wagoner’s poems remind us to set aside faulty notions of progress, at least for the moment, to consider the psychological cost of neglecting the wildness that we should embrace as a national inheritance. In doing so, he echoes Thoreau’s call to wildness as the “preservation of the world.”

With a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, Gerald pursued the art of sculpture, and left the Northwest to study with Richard Stankiewicz. After earning an MFA in sculpture from SUNY Albany, Gerald moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1982. In New York Gerald exhibited regularly, then taught Art and English for the NYC Department of Education until 2017, at which time he chose to pursue the art of poetry.

Recognition:
2018: Visiting Poet Residency Brooklyn Navy Yard. 2019. Gowanus Dredgers Canoe
Club Boathouse, Brooklyn, NY, On The Tides of Time, Poems and Paintings, in
collaboration with painter Robert Gould. 2023 Poets Afloat Mini-Residency Waterfront
Barge Museum, Red Hook Brooklyn, Curator and Host of, A Persistence of Cormorants,
a May to October outdoors reading series in Brooklyn beside the Gowanus Canal
Selected Publications: Beltway Quarterly, BigCityLit, Blue Mountain Review, Cathexis
Northwest Press, Night Heron Barks, Ocotillo Review, Right Hand Pointing, Misfits,
Maryland Literary Review, Burningword.

Alyssandra Tobin is a poet, editor, and teacher. Alyssandra is the author of Put Eyes on Me Not Like a Curse, published by Quarterly West in 2022.

Danielle Cooney is an Adjunct Professor of Composition, BFA Program Coordinator at the University of Montana.