Book Cover Art by Selena Howard & Edited by Charles H. Gragg
https://books.google.com/books?id=HfuVBQAAQBAJ
Olan L. Smith updated his cover photo.
September 15 at 4:39 PM
Poet/writer, John E OHara
Artist: Olan Smith
Medium: Acrylic
Canvas: 11×14 in.
September 15th 2019
Art Source:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217791472732457
What can I say about John E Ohara’s (aka John E Wordslinger) metaphorical book, “Poetry Train America,” and all in this series of books, but wow! I was with him in 2008/9, online, when the idea was born, and even then I thought, “This is an ambitious project,” a project to bring modern day poets together, online, and printed book form, “Poetry Train America” and now “Poetry Train Canada”, and “Poetry Train Africa.” Too many poets find themselves toiling in obscurity, and in the darkness. With his first adventure in seeking out these poets, John traveled, virtually, from state-to-state seeking out these poets, gathering them together in to his “train” and giving them a free ride into the world of his intellect. Many people couldn’t grasp the idea, the metaphor, or John’s desire to give this train wheels, wheels into the future, and it seems it has become his life’s ambition to record all the living poets on this globe he finds worthy of a ticket. The idea that once in print he is giving them immortality. I own this book and it is proudly displayed on my coffee table! I’m not saying this because I’m one of those Missouri poets he chose, I’m saying this, because I believe in the genius that is John E O’Hara’s dream, to record the poets of the living world and give them recognition, giving them flight into immortality.
Olan L. Smith,
Missouri poet and artist,
September 18, 2019
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Olan L. Smith Poem Videos on the Poetry Train:
Nudged Sketches of Flighty Things 