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| Gary W. Hutson |
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Born in Clinton, Kentucky in 1953, Gary W.
Hutson considers himself a native Idahoan
because he was raised there since he was six
months old. At the age of seventeen our poet
left his family farm to join the US Army and the
82nd Airborne Division as an artilleryman in the
airborne artillery. He thought it might be easier
work than milking the 50 head of cows as he'd
been doing since he was old enough to carry a
gallon of hot water to the barn.
Honorably discharged from the All-American
Division and the Army after three years of
service, our poet begins the climb to the
wreckage of his past that would be the basis of
his first collection, The Naked Truth of a
Common Man 101 Poems.
This two-fisted drinker stumbled through 30
years of hard drinking, living the life of an Idaho
ranch hand, driving long-haul trucks, a roughneck
in the oil patch, and being a corrections officer
working death row for the State of Idaho. And,
yes, his life includes a stretch as a homeless
drunk writing poetry on the streets of Boise,
Idaho.
On his way to a ranch to find work while
hitchhiking in the rain, our poet learns that the
man who picks him up is famed Idaho cowboy
poet Charlie Smith. Such begins a friendship
that changes our poet's life. With Charlie as our
poet's boss and in-between cleaning greasy old
restaurant hoods, Charlie teaches Gary the craft
of poetry..
We now find our author with 10 years sober
living and doing two things he really loves -
driving big rigs coast to coast and writing poetry
again.
Hutson considers himself a native Idahoan
because he was raised there since he was six
months old. At the age of seventeen our poet
left his family farm to join the US Army and the
82nd Airborne Division as an artilleryman in the
airborne artillery. He thought it might be easier
work than milking the 50 head of cows as he'd
been doing since he was old enough to carry a
gallon of hot water to the barn.
Honorably discharged from the All-American
Division and the Army after three years of
service, our poet begins the climb to the
wreckage of his past that would be the basis of
his first collection, The Naked Truth of a
Common Man 101 Poems.
This two-fisted drinker stumbled through 30
years of hard drinking, living the life of an Idaho
ranch hand, driving long-haul trucks, a roughneck
in the oil patch, and being a corrections officer
working death row for the State of Idaho. And,
yes, his life includes a stretch as a homeless
drunk writing poetry on the streets of Boise,
Idaho.
On his way to a ranch to find work while
hitchhiking in the rain, our poet learns that the
man who picks him up is famed Idaho cowboy
poet Charlie Smith. Such begins a friendship
that changes our poet's life. With Charlie as our
poet's boss and in-between cleaning greasy old
restaurant hoods, Charlie teaches Gary the craft
of poetry..
We now find our author with 10 years sober
living and doing two things he really loves -
driving big rigs coast to coast and writing poetry
again.