Benjamin B White

I am less a warrior poet and more of a storyteller with a military background. That said, however, I have to acknowledge the influences that have swirled into my work. Of course, Wilfred Owen is there, but so is the cut-too-short work of Keith Douglas and Leroy Quintana’s book of Vietnam experiences, Interrogations.

I grew up in South Central Kentucky listening to the local, culture-based perspectives on being human, and picked up on the humor and the matter-of-fact world views that could never be denied. From church attitudes to stoic farm work to a 40-pound gopher getting sucked into a coke bottle during a tornado, the people and their stories were worth listening to – and were a fundamental key of my early development as a writer.