Cross Country

About the Book

Cross Country is a collection of poems, tracing a journey from Pomona, California, to Union Station, Los Angeles, in which the poet picks up a hitchhiker whose name is the same as his long-dead sister. Poems fill the spaces of the journey, and the two finally get to Los Angeles. Additional poems that stand on their own are included. The poems of the book are serious, funny, happy, and sad—a mix of the elements of the form. Cross Country, the title, refers to the cross-country travel, the sport of running called cross-country, and the cross itself.

About the Author

Kevin Thornburgh began his serious Writing in 1982, upon graduation from college. He next Studied with Ionna Veronika Warwick at Beyond Baroque in her Poet’s workshop in Venice, CA; Catherine Erickson at the University Of La Verne; Lisa Steinman at Reed College, after winning a National Endowment For the Humanities; and finally, with Alma Luz Villanueva, Frank Gaspar, and Tim Seibles at The MFA program of Antioch University, LA. The poet was born in 1959, in Monterey Park, CA. He Attended Covina High School and was a runner and A writer there. He became a cross country coach and English teacher, following that. He is semi-retired, Working currently on a novel about the Civil War.