Creekwalker

We posted photography, poetry and essays, conducted our first interviews, designed and sold a few t-shirts and created an instrumental CD that took listeners down the Monterey Peninsula through Carmel to Big Sur and beyond. Two years later, desiring to create a purely literary space, Creekwalker was founded in 1998 as a venue for unpublished poets... and writers. For a time Creekwalker existed as a link at the top of Tawnybark's webpage. The pace was deliberately slow from the outset, like a salon or a comfortable living room in which relaxed conversations about poetry and art were fostered. In1999 we closed down Tawnybark and created Creekwalker's first dedicated webpage. From 1999 to 2007 we published dozens of unpublished poets including selections from the Rochester Institute of Technology's Athenaeum poetry group. From 2007 to 2010 we sponsored the Creekwalker Poetry Prize, conducted interviews and spoke with numerous poets and photographers about their craft including Oliver Rice, Thom Halls and others. I retain a fascination with the work of poets, writers, photographers, painters and other artists who toil, quietly and largely unheralded, in the service of their art and expect Creekwalker will continue to play a role in bringing their work to a larger audience.Read More