Poetry Happy Hour Features Bill McCloud

Gotahold Brewing has chosen the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) as their #TipsforTransformation benefactor during the month of April, National Poetry Month.  Poetry Happy Hours will be held at 5:30 pm every Thursday in April in the beer garden at Gotahold.  The events will benefit the WCDH scholarship fund and celebrate the beauty and art of poetry. On Thursday, April 8, at 5:30 pm Bill McCloud will move the audience by reading a selection of his poetry.

teaches history at Rogers State University in Oklahoma. His book, “What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam?” (University of Oklahoma Press), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. His poetry book, “The Smell of the Light: Vietnam, 1968-1969,” (Balkan Press), reached number one on the "Oklahoma Best-Sellers" List (“The Oklahoman”).Bill McCloud

His Vietnam War papers were purchased by Harvard University. Named a three-time Woody Guthrie Poet, his poems have appeared…