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Larry R. Brooks

In the past, I have been an English teacher, cook, janitor, typist, farmer, pro bowler, and poet. I have a classical education in the arts with a BSE in English, an MA in English with an emphasis on British literature, especially the poets, and an MFA in creative writing.  I have a total of 235 college credits and will probably get more before I die.  I love going to school and learning. Publications:  In the last three years: Poetry (1997): Mind Purge, Malevolence, State, George & Mertie's Place, Nite-Writer's Int. Lit. Arts Journal, Parnassus Literary Journal, The Poet's Attic, Pacific Coast Journal, Mobius Poetry (1998):    Fauquier Poetry Journal, George & Mertie's Place, Red Owl Magazine, tight, Lynx, Axe Factory Review, Anthology Magazine, Up Dare?, Mojo Risin' Magazine, Parnassus Literary Journal, The Open Bone, American Tanka, Neologism, Poetry Motel, Blind Man's Rainbow, The Poet's Page, etcetera, Atom Mind, Poetalk, Emotions Poetry for 1999: frisson, Footprints, Pacific Coast Journal, Four-Sep, Connecticut River Review, Amelia Prose:  book reviews, essays on education Travel:  England, Germany, France, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Liberia, Egypt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, India, Nepal, Mexico, Brazil, Japan Hobbies:  writing, computing, reading, traveling, chess I was born in Kansas, educated in various universities in the sixties. I've been writing poetry for thirty years with some degrees of success.  I currently live in Japan, where I work and study.  I am a secular humanist, and I believe that man's problems will be solved by science, and that wisdom can only come from critical inquiry.  I love poetry as a hobby and as a wonderful means to express personal beliefs.  I post poem on the Internet to see how they work for others.  Then I re-write based on input I get from various sources, including Dove's Nest, which I return to despite the occasional personal attacks, because there are some good poets here who genuinely want to improve, as I do, and can take criticism like an adult.  I believe we can only improve our writing if we are willing to listen to criticism with an open mind.



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