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Bill was born in Craig, Colorado and is a lifelong resident of Dixon, Wyoming, a tiny hamlet about 45 miles north of Craig. He graduated from Little Snake River Valley High School in 1970, and spent the previous school year 1968-69 as a full scholarship student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduation, he attended the fall semester 1970-71 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. From there, he has evolved through many types of work, into a blue collar family man with a kind of existentialist philosophy.
His poetry chapbook: Across the Longing Bridge was published in August of 2007 by Pudding House Publications of Columbus, OH and is available at local bookstores or from his website: http://wyomingpoetry.net

A poem from the chapbook:
Trail of Tears

In the last moments
of madness

we were
driven souls

blown away
as the leaves
of summer

scattering
before the wind

bound no more
to root or branch

nor blood
or kinship

trudging
a wasteland
of shadows

with heavy hearts
we sang
our death songs
to the earth mother

beneath frozen feet
we trod the seeds
of her womb

and my words ?are her children ??red mouthed ?and wretched ??crying like ?winter wolves ??killing the ?last buffalo

© WFS 2006


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