DRY CRIK Journal

Fog in Sulphur
November 29, 2005

After his invitation to the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada in 1989, John Dofflemyer began publishing Dry Crik Review as an effort to inspire the contemporary voice of the cowboy and ranch culture. Under the imprint of Dry Crik Press, Blood Trails, the Viet Nam War poems of Bill Jones and Rod McQueary, was published in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, the press produced chapbooks from Paul Zarzyski, Laurie Wagner Buyer, Sue Wallis , Scott Preston and others. Dofflemyer also edited Maverick Western Verse for Gibbs Smith in 1994. Among other anthologies, his poetry is included in Anne Heath Widmark�s Between Earth and Sky and Cowboy Poetry Matters from Storyline Press. Still in the Mountains, John�s eighth chapbook, was published in 2004.