Jack Collom has a deep love of the woods and nature and birds. He was born in 1931 in Chicago, and has lived in Boulder, Colorado for over half a century. He is a USAF veteran and wrote his first poem in Libya. Jack has been the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, as well as two fellowhips from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of many volumes of poetry, including DOT'S DINER (Further Other Book Works), SECOND NATURE (Instance Press), RED CAR GOES BY (Tuumba Press), The Task, Lumping and Splitting, and Blue Heron & I.B.C. Jack has been an indefatiguable teacher of poetry, editing creative writing anthologies including Poetry Everywhere. Jack has taught poetry to people of all ages, all over the country (and also in other countries!) and founded the eco-lit program at Naropa University in 1989.
