Gerry McFarland
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Gerry McFarland lives with his wife, writes poetry and walks his dog in Seattle. He has worked in bush bean picking, carpentry, sheet metal, spent time in the US Navy (1968-1972), technical writing, psychotherapy and social work. He graduated from Antioch University Seattle with a Masters in Psychology in 1990. After many years doing psychotherapy and human service work, he now enjoys teaching others how to be therapists and social workers.
His poems have appeared in The Seattle Times’ Pacific Magazine; Phoenix; Exhibition; convolvulus; Switched-on Gutenberg; Detours: Poems of Travel by Land, Air, Sea and Mind, an anthology of travel poems published by Lonesome Traveler Press; Poetry on the Buses, sponsored by the King County Arts Commission; Bellowing Ark; and Crab Creek Review.
Winning Entry: Gunner Tries to Die, Gunner Tells What Happened, Gunner Apologizes for Not Shooting
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2003, Finalist
