Troy Schoultz

Published poet and writer, writing workshop facilitator, substitute teacher, and community theatre actor.Blurbs:"As someone who had one of Mr. Schoultz's poems clipped and displayed in his work station for several years until it yellowed, cracked and ultimately disappeared (perhaps spirited away by poetry poachers), I look forward to seeing more of his work. His is a bracing sensibility in a world that can be at times both too flowery and too flat. It's a smooth Irish stout among barrelfuls of cheap beer and too-sweet wine." (Tom Breuer, editor, The Scene)"Troy Schoultz's poetry powerfully captures the tragedy and pathos of Midwestern life. He speaks of a working class life where "the wrongs outlive hope,/ For those who allow themselves anchored under frozen lakes." This immobility and failure, resounds through most of Schoultz's work. His naturalistic world is as dark as Sherwood Anderson's woods. The poet inhabits a space where "death stalked rural Wisconsin like a wounded suitor."The poet, through powerful images, is able to make the reader face mortality. Once we face our fragility, we begin to feel compassion, to feel that we can find our way through. Like Robert Frost, truth can guide us out of the woods and "into the clearing." (Doug Flaherty, Wisconsin Commended Poet and author of "Good Thief Come Home")"I also loved the piss and vinegar. A sense of blue-collar America comes across. A no-nonsense group that boasts of its straight talking and takes pride in what they do." (Fionna Doney Simmonds, reviewer, New Hope International Review - U.K.)