Seaquaker
Poetry is a creative game of the imagination--a way of seeing, feeling, being.
Seaquaker is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox, a poet, short story writer, and novelist. 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 from Montana to the Middle East casting lines out upon the turbulent waters and far shores of this troubled world.
Poems coming your way from Daniel include "Sayings so Unkind" in The Centrifugal Eye, "Ah, Bird-Poop Van" in The Bicycle Review, "Midnight Voyager" in Unfettered Verse, "molten froth waves" in A Handful of Stones, and a three-set in The Copperfield Review: "Body Parts," "The Last Libation," and "Crucified Isle."
"The Cheyenne Gift," a short story set in Montana, was published this week in Scattered Hearts Anthology.
In August 2009, Diminuendo Press published Daniel's first book of poetry, Dark Energy. The volume of experiential poems is available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, local bookstores, etc. Or get Dark Energy direct from Diminuendo Press:
http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/Diminuendo_Poetry/Dark_Energy_by_Daniel_Wilcox_poems_poetry_book.html
When Daniel visited Key West Florida, he stopped at Ernest Hemingway's mansion where he lived in the 1930's. It's a strange juxtaposition. Read the poem in the latest issue of Leaf Garden #7 Magazine.
Reflect on Daniel's lament against total war, "The Wind Blew Away the Young" at Mad Swirl.com. Weep for the innocent in "Caught in the Act in Iraq." Find healing shalom for the Middle East in "Three Sons" at outwardlink.net. A socially concerned Christmas poem, "To Whom It Does Not Concern," appeared at protestpoems.org. Daniel has a deep passion 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.
If you like controversy and satire, try out the oppositional poetry magazine The Recusant. Read
four of Daniel's more explosive poems, "a few blasphemies," "Concerning this 500th Anniverary of John Calvin and his Tongues
of Fire," "The Winged Ones, and "Black Light." The philosophical "ExHume" and other experimental poems conumdrumed the March issue of Counterexample Poetics. And "The Cup," on Truth and the Holy Grail, was discovered in Wild Violet.
Find romantic love in "love's bullion" in Full of Crow and experience "Ever After," in The Shine Journal. Read "her strands" at Writer's Ink.
Daniel's wild lines have also fallen to print in Word Catalyst, The Green Silk Journal, the poetry warrior, Danse Macabre, Western Friend, Word Riot, Moria, The Centrifulgal Eye, Lunarosity, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News, ocean diamond, The Writer's Eye, Mad Swirl, Abandoned Towers, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, Western Friend Magazine, The Cherry Blossom Review, The Houston Literary Review, Lucid Rhythms, Wild Violet, Identity Theory, Halfway Down the Stairs, Right Hand Pointing, The Externalist, The Green Silk Journal, The Driftwood Review, Flutter Poetry Journal, Frostwriting, Idlewheel Literary Friction, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce Print Journal, The Cerebral Catalyst, The Clockwise Cat, Mississippi Crow Magazine, Anthrozine, Stylus Poetry Journal, The Rogue Poetry Journal, The Other Side Magazine, etc. Check out the links in Published Writing.
"The Faces of Stone," based on his life in the Middle East, was published in both The Danforth Review and Danse Macabre. One of Daniel's reflective articles recently appeared in the nonfiction book, Walking Cheerfully on the Web, edited and published and by Liz Oppenheimer. The volume is available from Quaker Books.
Daniel has finished a second book of poems, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls. The third tome is seeping out from his mind to the screen right now;-)
Recently, he completed The Feeling of the Earth, a speculative/alternate history novel which takes place between 1842 and 2073. He has started a suspense thriller called An Eye for Beheading, partially for his wife who loves "who-done-its."
Daniel resides on the central coast of California with his mystery-loving wife. The hiking picture was taken in the coastal Redwoods of California. Daniel has also hiked the tallest peak in Arizona and backpaced to the top of Mount Whitney in California. His favorite backpacking times were down trails into the bottom of the Grand Canyon; 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 in Olympia National Park in Washington state, and he daywalks 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
lightwaveseeker@gmail.com