About the Author

Poet, journalist, and third-term Green county commissioner, Art Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth. He served as poet-in-residence for the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival for twenty-five years and continues as founder/director of the annual Talking Gourds poetry gatherings. He lives near Norwood on Wright's Mesa at the western edge of the San Juans with his wife and children.