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J. Glenn Evans

"J. Glenn Evans has always been a great supporter of my work and has invited me to speak many times at Poetswest. Also of note about him, he was awarded the l999 Faith Veamer Cooke Award by the Washington Poets Association in recognition of service to the poetry community of Washington. He also won the 2003 Seattle Freelancers Award for literary achievement." -- Bruce Taylor

After being confined for a number of years by the straightjacket of historical fact in writing nonfiction, I find creative release in what is often defined as magic realism. Having written two biographies and several local community histories, including Pike Place Market, my writing progressed toward poetry and fiction. Regardless of what I was writing, however, I've always begun each day with a period of stream of consciousness writing and from this unfettered exercise have come the weird overtones of surrealist images and thoughts that appear in many of my poems and short stories. My writing is generally grounded in reality but [I find] the happenstance of style in magic realism subconsciously helps to make sense of that reality and the characters who inhabit that world. My books of poetry are Buffalo Tracks (2003), Window in the Sky (1996) and Seattle Poems (1996). My first novel, Broker Jim (2002), is based on my twenty-year career as a stockbroker and investment banker. My second novel, Zeke's Revenge, a work in progress, is a mining story based on my experiences operating a mining company in Idaho.

J. Glenn Evans

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