Out West

In this essay, Joe Wilkins writes about growing up hard in eastern Montana. This essay was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award in the Essay category

Notes from the Bulls: The Unedited Journals of Verl Newman

This short story by Joe Wilkins originally appeared in Orion

All the Forces at Work Here

In this essay by Joe Wilkins, a mistake is straightened out with the help of a family friend

Explain: Extinct

Associate Professor Joe Wilkins and his family spent the summer and fall of 2015 living in an off-the-grid cabin in the Klamath Mountains above the Rogue River of southwest Oregon. His poem Explain: Extinct grew out of that time on the Rogue

Of Blood and Bone

In this essay, Joe Wilkins muses on the loss of a corporeal knowledge of death

Dream On

In this essay, Joe Wilkins describes what he believes are the essential elements of Western films

Wish

This poem by Joe Wilkins originally appeared in Blackbird

American Myth-Busting

In this essay, Joe Wilkins discusses the new breed of western films

Where Paradise Lay

In this essay by Joe Wilkins, a stop at a local farmers\u27 market evokes memories of growing up in Montana

My Mother\u27s Story: Retold and Annotated

In this annotated essay, Joe Wilkins tells the story of how his mother met his father and how the two of them came to be his parents