Honorably discharged from the All-American Division and the Army after three years of service, our poet begins the climb to the wreckage of his past that would be the basis of his first collection, The Naked Truth of a Common Man 101 Poems.
This two-fisted drinker stumbled through 30 years of hard drinking, living the life of an Idaho ranch hand, driving long-haul trucks, a roughneck in the oil patch, and being a corrections officer working death row for the State of Idaho. And, yes, his life includes a stretch as a homeless drunk writing poetry on the streets of Boise, Idaho.
On his way to a ranch to find work while hitchhiking in the rain, our poet learns that the man who picks him up is famed Idaho cowboy poet Charlie Smith. Such begins a friendship that changes our poet's life. With Charlie as our poet's boss and in-between cleaning greasy old restaurant hoods, Charlie teaches Gary the craft of poetry..
We now find our author with 10 years sober living and doing two things he really loves - driving big rigs coast to coast and writing poetry again.
One of the things our author has come to love is audio theatre which he loves to produce at his small production company Stillriver Productions. Click on Castle Creek Radio and find the first of hopefully many more audio theatre productions to come!
