|
Jack Collom
| born |
November 08, 1931
|
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Chicago, IL, The United States |
| genre |
Poetry, Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction
|
| influences |
Orpingalik, Shakespeare, Blind Willie Johnson, Dada, Chaucer, Gertrude Stein, Hank Williams |
about this author
Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He is adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and has worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom is the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom has twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He has four grown children and is married to the writer Jennifer Heath.
|
|
