Author:
Jack Crocker
Published:
September 16th, 2021
ISBN:
978-163848324-3
Price:
$ 19.99
Cover:
Paperback & Hardcover
Subjects:
Poetry
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The Algorithm of I is Jack Crocker’s second collection of poems. The first, The Last Resort, was published in 2009 by the Texas Review Press. His poems have appeared in The Texas Review, Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, and other journals, with fiction in The Cimarron Review. Poems have been anthologized in The Texas Anthology; Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood; Texas Stories and Poems; and Florida in Poetry. He scripted and performed “Introduction to Folksongs” for Mississippi Educational Television that was aired nationally. He has written songs for StaFree Publishing Company and had a recording contract with Fretone Records of Memphis, Tennessee

 

The Author


Jack Crocker

Jack Crocker is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, and professor of English, at Western New Mexico University. He has held various faculty and administrative positions, including at the University of South Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Having attended college on basketball and baseball scholarships, he has a B.A. in English from Delta State University, an M.A. in English from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University. His poetry has been widely published in a variety of journals and anthologies. In 2009 the Texas Review Press published a collection—The Last Resort. His latest volume of poems, published by the Mimbres Press of Western New Mexico University, in September 2021, is The Algorithm of I. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico with his wife Jodi and two children, Jessi and William.