The semester break has been very good to me, but it is ending on a note of sadness and apprehension. I’ve been able to write 54 new poems in the last month. I’ve posted 12 new essays on this website. I’ve written tens of E-mails, not one-liners or simple notes,…
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Dr. Patrick Dobson is a work in progress until his termination. In the meantime, He is a writer, scholar, postman, and college professor living in Kansas City, MO.
The University of Nebraska Press published his travel memoirs, Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer in 2015 and Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains in 2009. Canoeing the Great Plains won the 2016 High Plains Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. His essays and poems have been published in New Letters, daCunha, Kansas City Star, Garo, Wood Coin, and JONAHmagazine, and others.
Dobson earned a doctorate in American History and Literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2013. He has edited books, taught journalism, and been a union ironworker. He now teaches American History, Modern Latin American History, and Western Civilization at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.
He looks forward to hearing from you soon.
When Nick asked if he could go sledding with his friends, my heart stopped a second. Of course, I said sure. He’s 16 and can well manage on his own. Plus, he has to have his time independent of the house and of parents. But in the back of my…
Leave a CommentThe night I split up with Syd’s mom, Syd and I sat on the porch of our house at Gillham Park and watched the sun set over the apartment buildings and houses on the other side of the park. Relief coursed through me. I had come to terms with something…
Leave a CommentThe sun was already below the horizon. The heat of the day was lifting and the breeze from the south passed over the parking lots and strip malls out by the highway. Jeff, Brian, and I had already been to the liquor store and were looking for a place to…
One CommentOn January 7, Nick will have been with us for twelve years. He’s 16 now and a very different person. Conflict and fear fraught those first days with us. He had to learn how to trust. Then, he had to learn how to let go. We had to understand his…
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