Bill Ayres

Bill Ayres has been running or helping to run bookstores since the invention of paper. Some say ink was his idea.

His latest book, We Share the World, is about how we relate to each other as we shift from child to adult and from lost to found. Here are poems in which he's been changed into a dog, a horse, a muddy river, a curious fly.... And poems in which he shifts back to being human and journey home, aware, at last, that he was more noble, more useful, when he was a worm.

It is his autobiography.

Jesus Poems stem from the gospel stories. They reflect on what Christ said and what he did.

What Passes for Wisdom contains poems based on proverbial sayings: "A bird in the hand. is worth two in the bush." "One man's trash is another man's treasure." "Don't count your eggs..." "You have to walk a mile in another man's shoes..." "The squeaky wheel get the grease." There are love poems. There are poems of gratitude.