Bruce Whealton - Web Developer, Writer, Poet, Publisher

Bruce Whealton is an American poet, publisher, editor and web designer/developer. Bruce Whealton is co-editor with Jean Arthur Jones for the online magazine Word Salad Poetry Magazine. Bruce Whealton lives in North Carolina. He has seen many of his poems published in various books, journals/magazines and on the web. Bruce Whealton is also here on Wikipedia and onWordopedia: Bruce Whealton

Education
'Bruce Whealton attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and received his Bachelors Degree in Electrical/computer Engineering in 1989. Bruce went on to receive his Masters in Social Work from the University of South Carolina in 1996.

Career and Professional Information

Bruce has combined his interest in technical matters with his creativity as expressed in efforts such as this poetry magazine, his own poetry, and as a Web Developer/Designer.  Bruce Whealton is the owner of Future Wave Designs, a successful web development, web design and consulting company in Carrboro, North Carolina, near Chapel Hill, NC in the Triangle Area of North Carolina - the Research Triangle area.

Poetry

Bruce Whealton''' began to think of himself as a poet beginning back in 1992, when he shared his poetry at a poetry reading for the first time.  This was at the Coastline Convention Center overlooking the Cape Fear River, in Wilmington, NC.  He began Word Salad as an online poetry magazine in 1995.

You can read blogs by Bruce Whealton: http://brucewhealton.us and On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas: Bruce Whealton

Publications and Recognition

  • Bruce Whealton can be found featured on the Port City Poets section of the Star News Online, as seen here.
  • Bruce Whealton has been publishing Word Salad Poetry Magazine since 1995, with the magazine being in its sixteenth year in 2010.
  • Bruce Whealton was featured in "'The Simple Vows Anthology" with his poem Genealogy.
  • More links to where Bruce Whealton has been published are available here on Word Salad's website.
  • Four Poems by Bruce Whealton appeared in "And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine," Rivers of Blood, I Dreamed I was A Ghost, and The Name.\
  • Four Poems by Bruce Whealton appeared in "Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine," Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent, Shelter, Becoming, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder