The Seaquaker is the writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox, a poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Poetry is a creative game of the imagination--a way of seeing, a way of feeling, a way of being; a chance to paint in our human canvas, to experience images and moods and truths via the deep structure of far-reaching words.

Browse through his poems, short stories, and philosophical musings to see the world and life from a different perspective.

Daniel earned his degree in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, teacher, and wanderer of plenty of where--from Montana to the Middle East--casting lines out upon the turbulent waters and far shores of the world. 

Recently, his poem "Picture Identity" appeared in The Oak Bend Review. If you enjoy poems about animals, check out "Hardwood Tap Dancer" in The Greensilk Journal which was published in the May 2009 issue.

Looking for poems on romantic love?  Treasure "love's bullion" in Full of Crow and experience "Ever After," dance in The Shine Journal. Poems of decision including "Our Human Real Estate," "The Miser," and "For Goodness Sake" were published in Word Catalyst. Scenes of place, "Cambria in Gray" and "restless slumber" landscaped The Houston Literary Review. The philosophical "ExHume" and other experimental poems conumdrumed the March issue of Counterexample Poetics. And "The Cup," his poem on Truth and the Holy Grail, was discovered in Wild Violet. During this time of the recession, a poem of economic murder splattered one page of the poetry warrior.

Daniel's wild lines have also fallen to print in Danse Macabre, Western Friend, Word Riot, Moria, The Centrifulgal Eye, Mississippi Crow Magazine, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News, ocean diamond, The Writer's Eye, Word Catalyst Magazine, and Mad Swirl. Check out the links in Published Writing.

His poetry in the past has been published in many other journals and magazines including Abandoned Towers, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Cherry Blossom Review, The Houston Literary Review, Lucid Rhythms, Wild Violet,  Identity Theory, Halfway Down the Stairs, Lunarosity, Right Hand Pointing, The Externalist, The Green Silk Journal, The Driftwood Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce, The Centrifugal Eye, The Cerebral Catalyst, The Clockwise Cat, Anthrozine, Stylus Poetry Journal and The Other Side Magazine.

Daniel has a deep concern for peacmaking, ethics, and human rights. "IraqiTemples," a poem on the theme of religious intolerance, was published by The November 3rd Club.  Check out his poem about alcohol, the American Indian, and being human at Sentinel Poetry Online.

Daniel's short story set on an Indian reservation, "The Cheyenne Gift,"  will be published  in 2010 in Scattered Hearts Anthology by Desert Breeze Publishing. "The Faces of Stone," based on his life in the Middle East, was published in both The Danforth Review and Danse Macabre.

A volume of his poetry, Dark Energy, has been accepted for publication in 2010 by Diminuendo Press. He is working on a second book of poetry, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls.

Recently, Daniel completed The Feeling of the Earth, a speculative novel. He is now working on a suspense thriller called An Eye for Beheading. 

Daniel resides on the central coast of California with his mysterious wife. The hiking picture was taken on the tallest peak in Arizona. He has also backpaced to the top of Mount Whitney and down into the bottom of the Grand Canyon on many of the South Rim trails; but now he hikes into his computer room each day in the fall of his years:-). Well, it's not quite that bad; Daniel has hiked with his family on Kaui and he hikes around locally on the Central Coast.

Reference of the Site Logo:
I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also, I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings...
George Fox

Check out Daniel's personal blog of musings on Ultimate Reality, ethics, religion and social history, literature, media, and art:

http://infiniteoceanoflightandlove.blogspot.com/

Daniel Eugene Wilcox
seaquaker@gmail.com