Bill Watkins

Bill Watkins is a recovering alcoholic and comedic poet with an entertaining, uplifting story to tell. He founded travelingpoet.net as a platform to explore his love for poetry, history, and current events; has written and published forty-five books in multiple genres, from children's to poetry to YA political sci-fi, sports, history, law, humor and education. His most recent publication, Land Thieves, is a historical fiction piece that explores the controversial founding of the United States with dark humor and poetic indictment.

Bill performs Shakespeare and Frost, reads his own work, tells jokes, tells the truth, plays characters, music, sings, even dances! Always on the ready to share how he overcame suicidal depression by waking up spiritually and politically. Trying daily to be a spirit not a ghost, spreading love and recovery.