James Thomas Fletcher
James Thomas Fletcher is native to Oklahoma. After a brief stint in college, he left the state to see if the rest of the world existed. Along the way, he picked cotton, made fiberglass, and worked in a nuclear laundry. He was an M-60 machine gunner in Vietnam, company clerk at NATO/SHAPE in Belgium, bartender in South Carolina, bricklayer in Oklahoma, oil field chainhand in Louisiana, roustabout in the Gulf of Mexico, English instructor in North Carolina, and Director of Computer-Aided Instruction at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Academically, he holds the Master of Arts in English degree in Creative Writing (Poetry), has been honored for outstanding teaching, and presented at national and international conferences on the subject of computer pedagogy.
He has written short stories, plays, and screenplays, but favors poetry. He has fourteen published books of poetry. His latest is "The Visible Spectrum of Desire".
Until recently, he lived on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá.
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