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Scott R. Welvaert
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Scott R. Welvaert lives in Chaska, Minnesota, with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Sparrow. His poetry has been previously published in the Rockhurst Review, Chiron Review, Rockford Review, Cold Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Rosebud, Birmingham Poetry Review, Valaparaiso Poetry Review, and numerous other magazines and journals across the country. His published children’s novels include The Curse of the Wendigo and The Mosquito King, the former title being recently nominated for a 2009 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award.
Pacific is his first full-length collection of poetry. |
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Star-crossed lovers, David and Marti, set out to fulfill their dying wish: see the Pacific Ocean. They begin in Minnesota, where they meet at an AIDS clinic, and Pacific chronicles their journey through the Black Hills, past Devil’s Tower, and to Cannon Beach. Before reaching their final destination, they must first accept their fates and the past choices that have led them down this tragic road. |
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"Welvaert’s characters rush toward their fate even as they seem to evade it, in poems tender and elegiac, poems full of clear-eyed detail and music informed by compassion, gravity, and grace."
—Richard Robbins, author of The Untested Hand and Other Americas |
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"Welvaert’s road trip West makes us want to do as its young and desperate protagonists and take off our shoes “to feel the world again, to step on the jagged rock.”
—Richard Terrill, author of Coming Late to Rachmaninoff and Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz. |
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Other books by Scott
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| Agate and Buck set out on a spine tingling adventure through the haunted Canadian woods to track down their missing parents. An ancient curse is set in motion, and soon the pair are being hunted by a shape shifting creature called the Wendigo. |
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Only young Agate and Buck McGregor, two orphans with surprising powers, can defeat the Mosquito Kings magic. First they will have to confront him in his mountain castle. But they dont know that the King has a powerful and evil companion, the Woman in White! |
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