John Macker lives in Northern New Mexico in an old roadhouse on the Santa Fe Trail that is currently in the last throes of an aggressive, decade long restoration. Books and broadsides of poetry include For The Few, The First Gangster, Burroughs At Santo Domingo, black/wing (cd with John Knoll), Adventures in the Gun Trade, his opus about Billy The Kid, Rimbaud and Cochise, and most recently, Woman Of The Disturbed Earth (Turkey Buzzard Press,2007) A new cd, Reading At Acequia Booksellers, is produced by Bruce Holsapple/Vox Audio, Magdalena, NM.
Over the last 20 years, has given public readings and conducted workshops throughout the West, most recently at Sparrows Performance Poetry Festival in Salida, Colorado, the Colorado Mountain College Summer Writers’ Conference & at the Moab Confluence, A Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, among others.
In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in the early-mid 90’s edited the award-winning literary arts journa
