: About Me

My name is J. Don Cook, a writer, photographer and artist living in Oklahoma City. For years I roamed the world as a photojournalist, earning three Pulitzer Prize nominations. I recently signed a contract with the University of Oklahoma Press for a book of my photos with personal essays accompanying many of the images. I recently finished a novel and I am looking for an agent. Started a second one. For many years I created large-scale steel sculptures with the "spot" use of stone or glass incorporated. For several years I created paintings on aluminum panel. I plant and grow organic vegetables, cook, and I am addicted to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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The Children of the Green Fields We children of the green fields arbored by molting cottonwood, lazy hounds of heated afternoon, worrying our little elbow sleeves to holes with impertinent disregard, watch iridescently-frocked dung beetles roll with relentless pious intent, perfect spheres of offal, plowing subtle sun-glazed canals leading to Paradise. We children of the green fields, follow cows home to milking: held in gentle musk of milkwood hollows cooling gloom 'neath elm, oak and sycamore, choked by ragweed and possum grapevines: smoked in surreptitious sin: above speckled woodpecker...

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