Duane L. Herrmann
Duane L. Herrmann, a reluctant carbon-based life-form, was surprised to find himself in 1951 on a farm in Kansas. He’s still trying to make sense of it but has grown fond of grass waving under wind, trees and moonlight. He aspires to be a hermit, but would miss his children, grandchildren and a few friends. He is known to carry baby kittens in his mouth, pet snakes, and converse with owls, but is careful not to anger them! His full-length collections of poetry include: Prairies of Possibilities, Ichnographical:173, Family Plowing, Remnants of a Life, No Known Address, Praise the King of Glory, Gedichte aus Prairies of Possibilities, and Into the Wind. He also has a science fiction novel, a number of chapbooks, and a collection of short stories (Exaltation: Stories of Spiritual Adventure).
Individual work has been published in more than a dozen anthologies, as well as Midwest Quarterly, Little Balkans Review, Flint Hills Review, Orison, Inscape, Lily Literary Journal, Hawai’i Review and others in print and online in English and other languages he can’t read. He is the recipient of the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship 1989, and the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award 2007. He survived a traumatic, abusive childhood embellished with dyslexia, ADHD (unknown at the time), cyclothymia, situational mutism, an anxiety disorder, and PTSD.