Old Copper

by Anthony Watkins

The last half of 2017 allowed us perspective to see a post Trump world more clearly. And in the process, to see ourselves more clearly. This is not a political collection, but it is politically informed, while dealing with issues beyond partisanship including aging and dying and memories and what it means to write a poem.

48 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2017

About the author

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There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.

Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.

My luck continued with wins in the June 2013, December 2014 and April 2016 Goodreads Newsletter
Poetry Contest! What an honor!

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Since 2008, the poets I have met thru Shelfari, Goodreads (especially the gang at Poetry) and Ablemuse, and now most strikingly, the professor, Al Filreis, his staff and TAs and my fellow 30,000 plus students at the University of Pennsylvania (thru Coursera) have impacted me, and encouraged me to try new things in the world of Poetry.

I suppose I will always be the simple southern country boy I have always been, with a folksy edge to everything I do. But I am stretching a little, and it seems to be well received.


Additional Influences: Bob Dylan, William Faulkner, Barbara Kingsolver, Gloria Naylor, Eudora Welty