Get your copy of Short Houses With Wide Porches, the debut poetry collection by Christopher Watkins. Most of the poems in this collection were started or completed during a three-month residency at The Kerouac House in Orlando, Fla., in the fall of 2006. Watkins drew inspiration for this work from the natural environment, and the sweet spirit of Kerouac, evoked by the house, fed by a steady diet of 1950s-era jazz, and channelled to paper through the Morse code of vintage typewriter keys rattling away till the wee hours. You won’t want to miss this, the third installment in our Kerouac Writers series.

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Shady Lane Press has contracted with Christopher Watkins to publish Short Houses With Wide Porches. Christopher Watkins is a poet and songwriter. His poems are  appearing or have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The GW Review, Slipstream, Euphony, Talking River, and Red Rock Review, among others. He was the Fall 2006 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac House. He is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program at The University of Southern Maine. As a songwriter, he has released five albums under the name Preacher Boy and has received a Gold Record for his songwriting work with Grammy-winning artist Eagle-Eye Cherry. He was raised in Iowa, Michigan, Italy and Washington and his lived with his missus, visual artist Amy Marinelli, in California, Ireland, Colorado, Illinois, and New York. This is his first poetry collection. Publication date: March 2008