My intent with starting this blog is to help share my father's poetry
with the world and not just Kansas, where he wrote the majority of his
poems. The Kansas prairie held a fascination with him, so much so that
the prairie/plains and nature in general are common themes. I never
knew he had written some 200 plus poems until after he died in 1997,
when I discovered a small homemade chapbook. As I continued to explore
Dad's files and boxes, I discovered his rough drafts and then nicely
handwritten copies. Suddenly, I saw a side of my father I had never
known existed. For this reason, I worked to find a way to share his
work with the world. So this is where To the Prairie and To God by
Harold L. Gray (WorldAudiencePublishing.com) came from. I, myself,
began writing for the college newspaper at Kansas State Teachers
College (now Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas) and
have continued to write ever since. Little did I know my father
had a passion for writing and that several of his poems had run
in the early 1940s in the same paper I later worked for on campus.
This blog, then, will continue to be a place for me to share what
father and son have written, as well as to interact with anyone
else interested in what we have to say about life...But, please,
look closer at our website: http://totheprairieandtogod.com/
As I learn more about creating websites and developing blogs, I plan to
add much more.
Hope to hear from someone soon,
Kevin