Poetry Is The Truth

I’m still waiting for a call-back from Alan Fox after I left a message on his voice mail. I told him about my grandfather’s literary history. Royal Rosamond talked about founding a poet’s retreat with his friend, Otto Rayburn, a publisher and Ozark Historian. Rosamond owned forty acres in Arkansas. Rayburn asks Rosamond to contact his poet friends in California. Being a poet, I am sure Alan would be interested in this history. I am a poet as well.

My great grandfather was a neigbor and friend of Joaquin Miller.

Jon

According to my aunt Lillian, her father, Royal Rosamond, taught Earle Stanley Gardener the rudiments of writing. In a taped interview Lillian told me she would fall asleep in the Rosamond home in Ventura to the sound of Roy and Earl pecking away on the Royal typewriter. Gardener is the creator of Perry Mason, an old television series about…