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Ron Wallace

Goodreads author profile

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http://www.goodreads.com/RonWallace

born

December 17, 1953 in Durant, Oklahoma, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.RonWallacePoetry.com

genre

Poetry

influences

James Dickey, Howard Starks, Robinson Jeffers, Yusef Komunyakaa and Wa...more

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February 2008

About this author

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Ron Wallace was born December 17th, 1953 in Durant, Oklahoma. He grew up and still lives there with his wife and college sweetheart, Jane. They have one son, Matthew who is currently attending Southeastern Oklahoma State University where Ron graduated with a B.A. in 1977 and an M.A. in 1983. Wallace taught English, Humanities, American History, and coached baseball in Colbert, Oklahoma (a small public school on the Red River) for thirty years moving away from the writing he had been doing in college. He is of Native American (Choctaw, Cherokee and Osage) and Scots Irish ancestry tracing his roots out of Georgia and Arkansas into Oklahoma.
He began to revive his writing in the 90’s and started attempting some publishing as that decade close...more Ron Wallace was born December 17th, 1953 in Durant, Oklahoma. He grew up and still lives there with his wife and college sweetheart, Jane. They have one son, Matthew who is currently attending Southeastern Oklahoma State University where Ron graduated with a B.A. in 1977 and an M.A. in 1983. Wallace taught English, Humanities, American History, and coached baseball in Colbert, Oklahoma (a small public school on the Red River) for thirty years moving away from the writing he had been doing in college. He is of Native American (Choctaw, Cherokee and Osage) and Scots Irish ancestry tracing his roots out of Georgia and Arkansas into Oklahoma.
He began to revive his writing in the 90’s and started attempting some publishing as that decade closed. His work has appeared in Insight, Poetic Voices, Loch Raven Review, Scorched Earth Publishing and Grandmother Earth XIV just to name a few publications. In 2004 and 2005 he won several contests and was awarded a chance to publish a book at emergingpoets.net a website sponsored at that time by Jim Furber of TJMF Publishing. The result was Wallace’s first book, Native Son (American Poems From the Heart of Oklahoma), which became a finalist in the 2007 Oklahoma Book Awards. He saw his work translated and published in the January 2007 issue of the Romanian Literary Magazine, Convorbiri Literare by the noted Romanian poet Vasile Baghiu in December of 2006.
In February of 2007 Wallace appeared as part of the emergingpoets.net Southern Tour with one of the current sponsors of the site Maggie Wilkie and Tina Collins-Eib, Lynn Doiron, Sherry Thrasher and featured poet, Leo Briones. In March of 2007 he appeared as the featured poet at the Abydos Learning International Trainers Conference in Houston. In May he was the featured poet in Scorched Earth Publishing e-zine at www.scorchedearthpublishing.com, and in September he won second place in the 2007 Grandmother Earth National Environmental Poetry Writing Awards.
In 2007 his second book based on his love of American History was released. Smoke and Stone (The Voices of Gettysburg) is a poetic account of the Battle of Gettysburg from different points of view of both real and fictional participants in this turning point of the Civil War.
Wallace's third book of Oklahoma poetry, I Come from Cowboys ... and Indians, was released in October of 2008 and won the 2009 Oklahoma Writer's Federation Best Book of Poetry Award.
His fourth volume of poetry, Oklahoma Cantos, was released in September 2010 and was a finalist in the 2011 Oklahoma Book Awards and won the 2011 Oklahoma Writer's Federation Best Book of Poetry Award. (less)

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Books by Ron Wallace

Average rating: 4.38 · 8 ratings · 4 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Native Son: American Poems from the Heart of Oklahoma 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Smoke and Stone: The Voices of Gettysburg 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	I Come From Cowboys And Indians 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Oklahoma Cantos 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Outlaws in Winter Pass (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm

Description: Blank verse with some variations in meter

Pickett (Poetry)

1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm

Description: Narrative free verse poetry

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Ron Wallace liked Kate's review of Native Son: " For an Honorary Okie, reading this book is almost like being there. An acquired taste, no doubt, but heartfelt. "
Mar 25, 2012 10:11am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Brimstone by Robert B. Parker read in July, 2011	My rating:
The third book in the western series featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Realistic, intelligent and marked with the Robert Parker genius of writing dialogue. must read for any western fan.
Feb 04, 2012 10:18am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Pale Kings and Princes by Robert B. Parker read in June, 2011	My rating:
My third Spenser book in a month, and still another I'd list among my favorites. What can I say Parker never seems to disappoint!
Feb 04, 2012 10:15am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Taming a Seahorse by Robert B. Parker read in June, 2011	My rating:
Can't get enough of Spenser and Hawk, the characters are full of wit, intellect, and strength. Parker's dialogue may be the best written in any genre, just the back and forth verbage between the two central figures alone is worth the reading.
Feb 04, 2012 10:12am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, #12) by Robert B. Parker read in June, 2011	My rating:
Couldn't stay too long away from the genius that is Parker's Spenser series!!!! This is the one that hooked me on Parker so Ireturned to it in my progress of reading the entire series in chronolgical order.
Feb 04, 2012 10:10am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: The Rainmaker by John Grisham (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2011	My rating:
Probably my favorite Grisham novel, well written and real in every since of the word. You like the character Grisham presents you here.
Feb 04, 2012 10:06am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry read in May, 2011	My rating:
Not his best work, but a passable read, it's pretty hard to live up to the likes of Lonesome Dove and definitely a step up from the Berrybender junk.
Feb 04, 2012 09:55am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Sea Change (Jesse Stone, #5) by Robert B. Parker read in April, 2011	My rating:
Staying on a Robert Parker roll, he's imply the best there is.
Feb 04, 2012 09:52am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Stone Cold (Jesse Stone, #4) by Robert B. Parker read in April, 2011	My rating:
Jesse Stone keeps up the Paradise Police work. Parker's work never disappoints. I only wish the Jess Stone TV movies were close to being this good. Nothing against Tom Selleck, think he's great, but the books just overpower the films.
Feb 04, 2012 09:49am · see review
Ron Wallace gave to: Resolution by Robert B. Parker read in April, 2011	My rating:
I may enjoy Parker's westerns even more than his detective novels. This sequel to Appaloosa is a brilliant work worth reading more than once. Hitch and Cole keep the fire burning. Great read!!!
Feb 04, 2012 09:45am · see review