Apricot Harvest

poems

De: Victor Pearn

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Victor W. Pearn born 1950 in Jacksonville, Illinois. He began writing poems at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii when he was 21 years old. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois, Springfield, and his English Literature MA in creative writing at Colorado University, Boulder. "One Year of Grace," won the 1983 university wide poetry contest, and was printed as the prologue in the 1984 Coloradan by Colorado University. He's the author of Devil Dogs and Jarheads, a collection of poems describing the culture of the U. S. Marine Corps during Viet Nam, published by Michael Cooper, at Buscainc.com. And poems from that book have been read four times by Garrison Keillor on his NPR broadcast of "The Writer's Almanac." In 2009-2010 Mr. Pearn instructed eight freshmen English classes and six sophomore Writing classes, a total of 585 English majors, at Jining University located in Qufu, China. Apricot Harvest, was written in China, and inspired by the contemporary Chinese culture, from experiences he had while living in Shandong Province from August 2009 to September 2010. He writes in Long Beach, CA.