Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore. His collection of essays, The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self was published by Verse Press in 2005. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000). Verse Press published Letters to Wendy's (2000).
Read Joe's poem "The Home of the Brave" from the Sacramento News & Review.
Read interviews in Fence and MiPOesias.
Click on the links above to check out The Holy Spirit of Life and Letters to Wendy's, available from Wave Books. Also available online are Disfortune and It Is If I Speak, both from Wesleyan University Press.
Read an interview in Book Slut.
Read a review of No Real Light in Rain Taxi.
reviews of Joe Wenderoth's work:
Rain Taxi Review of Books — 04/01/2008
Publishers Weekly — 08/20/2007
Publishers Weekly — 11/01/2005