To view videos of Kendall reading selected poems, please visit the YouTube page at

http://www.youtube.com/kendallmccook

Desperado magazine was first published in October, 1969. Edited by poet Kell Robertson and printed by Ben Hiatt, who edited the Grande Ronde Review, Desperado published many of the writers now associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of poetry of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among these were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roberty Bly, Jack Micheline, Jerry Kamstra, and Roxy Gordon.

In 2002, Desperado # 12 was published in Fort Worth Texas. With Kell’s direction and McCook’s editing, the work includes noted poets from San Francisco to Santa Fe and on down to Fort Worth. From Jerry Kamstra in Santa Cruz to Argos MacCallum in Santa Fe to Tammy Gomez in Texas.

Desperado Page – Videos, reviews, contributors and more.

En Placitas, published by Desperado Press in Raton, New Mexico, 1996, chronicles Kendall McCook’s journey to Silva’s Saloon and a poetry night with Kell Robertson in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The long short story ends with a country dance in Eagle Nest and a long drive home to Kendall’s farm near Springer. Paperback, 46 pages.

En Placitas Page – Reviews, excerpts, & purchasing info.

White Settlement was published by Desperado Press, Raton, New Mexico, in 1996. It is the love story of my two friends from Tolar, Texas, who grew up on the hard streets of Northeast 28^th, yet found love in friendship and family. Paperback, 22 pages.

White Settlement Page – Excerpts and purchasing info.

This Land is Kendall McCook’s first book, published by Eakin Press in 1984. It tells the story of three generations of his people and their changing relationships to the land in Texas and northeastern New Mexico. Cloth, 136 pages.

This Land Page – Videos, reviews & purchasing info.

This farm poetry journal chronicles McCook’s life as a certified organic farmer, performance poet, and political observer, in the years between 1996 and 2002. Written in the early mornings before farm work began at dawn, the journal captures the farming promise of certified organic agriculture in far Northern New Mexico, performance stories of McCook’s friends, and also the political battles he endured.

Organic Farm Journal -  More information here.

“I Wish You Well,” a play in two acts, tells the memories and thoughts of two Texas and New Mexico farm people, the author, Kendall McCook, and his friend, an old Socialist farmer, Ray Childers. They discuss and debate the values of farm life and the politics of being poor.

I Wish You Well -  More information here.

“I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” is a play in two acts. It is Kendall’s love and dance tribute to the Northeastern New Mexico plains and to the farm and ranch people who made Union County their home in the late 1950s and 1970s.

I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You -  A Play in Two Acts