Author: Walter McDonald

Works Published by UNT Press

Where Skies Are Not Cloudy

— Vol. 4: of Texas Poets Series

Published: October, 1993  Pages: 65 

Comments about this work and some of Walt’s earlier poems: more... about Where Skies Are Not Cloudy

Rafting the Brazos

— Vol. 1: of Texas Poets Series

Published: November, 1988  Pages: 112 

Learning the Story of Scars After the axe-head buried itself in his ankle, my father clung to the log he was splitting, squeezing his eyes like fists. Twelve, he logged those woods for years with his father—Arkansas, the great depression, doing whatever they could. more... about Rafting the Brazos

  • National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Poetry, 1989