Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | retired high school teacher |
| Location | Fort Worth, TX, United States |
| Introduction | I'm an essayist, poet, and fiction writer living in Fort Worth, Texas. I've had poems published in California Quarterly, Borderlands, The Texas Observer, two anthologies of Texas poetry, and many other publications. My essays have appeared in The Texas Observer, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Weekly, and other venues. Stories of mine have been in Lynx Eye, Hardboiled, Verdad Magazine, Concho River Review, Amarillo Bay, and The Write Room, among others. In 1994 I was a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Fest, and in 2004 my chapbook earned a finalist designation for a Dobie Paisano Fellowship and was twice a finalist for Dallas Poets Community chapbook contest. In April 2011 I was a featured poet at their First Friday Reading. In 2012, I won the Sid. W. Richardson Foundation's Educator's Award so I could attend the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. Also, I was one of 4 runner-ups for The Texas Observer’s 2013 short story contest. My poem "Those Old Fans of my Youth" earned an Honorable Mention in the 2013 DPC Poetry Contest. In 2020, my poetry book What I Did Not Tell You was published. |
| Interests | politics, walking, eating out, history, literature, bicycling, traveling, movies, crossword puzzles, writing, and goofing off |
| Favorite movies | The Third Man, A Night at the Opera, The Maltese Falcon, Love and Death, In a Lonely Place, Rear Window, Taxi Driver, Touch of Evil, High Noon, Sunset Boulevard, It Happened One Night, American Splendor, Ace in the Hole, Tokyo Story, La Strada, Sullivan's Travels, A Face in the Crowd, Broadway Danny Rose, Double Indemnity,The Big Lebowski, Z, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, and Wild Strawberries |
| Favorite music | Visions of Johanna, Tangled up in Blue, Thunder Road, Strange Fruit, Famous Blue Raincoat, Everybody Knows, Fanfare for the Common Man, A Case of You, Up on Cripple Creek, A Night in Tunisia, Air On the G String, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Gloria, Perfect Day |
| Favorite books | Huckleberry Finn, Walden, Leaves of Grass, The Frozen Republic, True Grit, Confederacy of Dunces, Cairo Trilogy, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Shadow Country, Satanic Verses, The Trial, Towards a New Cold War, Inferno, Love in the Time of Cholera, Tom Jones, Blowback, Letters to an Imaginary Friend, Ironweed, Little Big Man, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Goodbye to a River, and Wise Blood |