Austin Poets International Leadership
API's Board oversees an Advisory Committee that runs the festival. A great way to experience AIPF is to volunteer for the committee and get to know
poets from across the country and around the world.
Members of the Advisory Committee are not an effete group of poets. Each member has an impeccable record of contributions to the poetic community and is active in AIPF events on a day to day basis during the Festival (see the annual program for details).
poets from across the country and around the world.
Members of the Advisory Committee are not an effete group of poets. Each member has an impeccable record of contributions to the poetic community and is active in AIPF events on a day to day basis during the Festival (see the annual program for details).
Del Cain
Del is a writer of poetry and prose, workshop leader, and contract editor. He has had two nonfiction books of Old West history published and two books of poetry. Songs on the Prairie Wind is available in a new perfect bound edition. Voices of Christmas is a group of character poems telling the traditional story in free verse. He has attended AIPF for 16 of the last 17 years and is a life member of DFW Writers Workshop. He lives and writes in Saginaw, Texas with the love of his life, Isabel. |
Hal C. Clark
Hal is a retired fourth grade teacher and a graduate of Texas A&M University. He has had poems published in Red River Review, Illya's Honey, and several anthologies. He is an active member of Dallas Poets Community and Austin Poets International. His first collection of poems, All of Me, was published March 2014. He lives with his wife, Anne, in Waxahachie, Texas. |
Ron Jorgenson
Ron Jorgenson (AKA Dr. Charles A. Stone) is a Wisconsinite by birth, Texan by choice, geneticist, archeologist, professor, entrepreneur, rancher, chef, adventurer, and poet – in no special order. He has published several books of poetry and edited four anthologies of poetry. He has been awarded three Poet Laureate titles and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has been a governing member of AIPF for a dozen years. |