Description:
Mars sent word: We need poetry. And what did that poet write about, on such a desolate, unknown planet? The days. The nights. The lives. Sun rises. The butterscotch sand and mountains. All of it with "new red words."
Brief description: Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer, artist, educator, and reality actor, hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Karin. His poetry and fiction is in over 200 journals and anthologies, including Spillway, Poetry South, Illuminations Literary Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Appalachian Journal. Find his stories and non-fiction in past issues of Still: The Journal, Longridge Review, Pikeville Review, and Story and Grit. His MFA is earned from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Visit his website at: www.larrydthacker.com or on Facebook at: thackalachia or on Insta at: larryunsupervised