Joe Wilkins

Joe Wilkins is the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, a finalist for the 2013 Orion Book Award, and two collections of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward and Killing the Murnion Dogs. He lives with his family in western Oregon, where he teaches writing at Linfield College.

What I’m looking for, always, is writing that works me over like a crowbar. That bruises, yes, but […]

Spikes & Rivers: The Work of Joe Wilkins by Elizabeth ...

October 11, 2013 in Editor's Feature tagged Elizabeth Eslami / Joe Wilkins by theriomorph

Isn’t it a shame, my grandmother said, silver fork in her shivering fist, how we have to go […]

Eat Stone and Go On by Joe Wilkins

October 10, 2013 in Poetry tagged Joe Wilkins by Ryan Gunn

i. Each knot is a promise. Each lead weight mashed in the backteeth’s vise evidence of a kind […]

Trotline by Joe Wilkins

October 10, 2013 in Poetry tagged Joe Wilkins by Ryan Gunn