Awards and
 Publications
2006 Published Native Son (American Poems from the Heart of Oklahoma)
2006 Emergingpoets Reader at The Memphis Book Festival in Memphis, Tennessee
2007 "Weight of Days" translated in Romanian magazine Convorbiri Literare.
2007 Reader on Emergingpoets Southern Tour
2007 Native Son is a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Awards
2007 Featured poet in Scorched Earth Magazine
2007 Featured poet at the Abydos Learning Conference in Houston, Texas
2007 "Indian Paintbrushes" Second place in Grandmother Earth National
Environmental Poetry Competition
2007 Featured poet at Southeastern University Native American Symposium
2007 Published Smoke and Stone (The Voices of Gettysburg)
2008 Reader at The Scissortail Writer's Festival ECU Ada, Oklahoma
2008 "Hay Bale Buffalo" 2nd Place "Helen Downing Memorial Award"
2008 "Memorial Day" 1st Place "Ruby Barber Peace Award"  Poetry Society of
Oklahoma Annual Awards
2008 "Night" 1st Place Poetry Long Unrhymed - Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc.
annual awards
2008 "Into the Mud" 1st Honorable Mention Poetry Short Unrhymed - Oklahoma
Writer's Federation, Inc. annual awards
2008 "Ghosts of Twilight" Third Place in Grandmother Earth's National Environmental
Poetry Competition
2008 Featured poet at Abydos Learning Conference in Austin, Texas
2008 "October Rising" Second Place Poetry Society of Texas National Federation of
State Poetry Societies, Inc. annual awards
2008 Featured poet at SODA  AAA Awards Luncheon in Ardmore, Oklahoma
2008 Published I Come from Cowboys... and Indians (I Come from Oklahoma)
2008 Featured poet at The Performing Arts Sudio in Norman, Oklahoma
2009 "Embrace"Honorable Mention New Mexico State Poetry Society - High Prairie
Poets Contest
2009 Published "Mantle" in June/July issue of Oklahoma Edge Magazine
2009 Best Book of Poetry Award for I Come from Cowboys... and Indians.
2009 "Black Rain Falling" 2nd Place Poetry Society of Oklahoma Annual Awards
2009 Reader at The Scissortail Writer's Festival ECU Ada, Oklahoma.
2009 "Owl" (For Robinson Jeffers) 1st Place in the National NFSPS - Texas contest
2009 Selected as a Woodyfest Reader for the 12th annual Woody Guthrie Festival in
Okemah, Oklahoma
2010 Reader at the ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2010 Published "Chata Ahaya Momma" and "Robert Geronimo at His Father's Grave"
in the Fall/Winter issue of Crosstimbers Journal USAO Chickasha, Ok
2010 Opened Ron Wallace - Oklahoma Poetry Fan page on Facebook
2010 Published "September Song" in di-verse-city Austin International Poetry Anthology
2010 Published "Selected Cantos" and "The Whittler" in Oklahoma Writer's Edition of
"Sugar Mule" and the print anthology Ain't Nobody Can Sing Like Me
2010 Honorable Mention for "Indian" in NFSPS National Contest Our American Indian
Heritage Awards
2010 Reader at the 13th annual Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma
2010 Pubished “Hard Traveling” and “Some Days” in Travelin’ Music a Poetic Tribute to Woody
Guthrie
2010 Published fourth volume of poetry, Oklahoma Cantos and introduced it at The Performing
Arts Studio in Norman, Oklahoma
2011 Reader at the ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2011 Published "A Cowboy Sonnet" in in di-verse-city Austin International Poetry Anthology
2011 Published "He Was Reading Chinese" in the July issue of The Enigmatist
Texas  Poetry Journal.
2011 Sold "Leaving Song", a poem, to Oklahoma Today Magazine for the Nov/Dec issue.
2011  Oklahoma Cantos is a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Awards.
2011  Oklahoma Cantos wins the Oklahoma Writers Federation 2011 Best Book of Poetry Award.
2011  "War Horses" published in September, 4 edition of "The Long Islander"
2011  Featured reader at SE Native American Symposium in November
2012  Reader at ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2012  "Gifts (Another One for Waylon)" published in "Cowboys and Indians" online magazine as
poem of the week for April 9
2012   Featured Reader for National Library Week at Henry G. Bennett Library
2012  Published fifth volume of poetry Hanging the Curveball and introduced it at Donald Reynolds
Library in Durant, Oklahoma April 26th
2012  “I Will Look for You” – Winner of Best Long Rhymed Poem contest – Oklahoma Writer’s
Federation Inc.
2012  Published Cowboys sixth volume of poetry Cowboys and Cantos New and Collected Poems
2012  “This Is What He Told Me” – Jim Spurr Award – East Central Oklahoma State University
2013  Reader at ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2013  Cowboys and Cantos - Finalist in the Oklahoma Book Awards for poetry book
2013  Hanging the Curveball – Best Book of  Poetry Award – Oklahoma Writer’s Federation, Inc.
2013  Published "Death of a Left Fielder" in Cobalt Review Vol. 2
2013  Published "On Jackson Square" in cybersoleil Literary Journal
2014  Reader at ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2014  Published "Before Turning Twenty - 1973" in July Red Earth Review
2014  “Learning to Speak Choctaw” Published in Oklahoma Poems and Their Poets edited by
Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown
Published "August Ending" and "Old Roads" in Dragon Poets Review
2014  Published "Running Iron" in the Fall issue of Concho River Review
2014  Published "Fly Fishing on Blue River in Oklahoma Today November/December issue
2015  Published "Fly Fishing on Blue River", "Indian Paintbrushes", and "Comes November" in
Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
2015  Reader at ECU Scissotail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2015 July – Selected as a Featured Reader  - Woody Guthrie Festival, Tulsa , Ok.
2015 Published "Fire" and "Here in Oklahoma" in Drago Poets Review" Winter Issue
2015 Published "When Brown Eyes Close" in Gris-gris Journal Winter issue
2016 January "Fly Fishing on Blue River" runner up in Songs Of Eretz Poetry Review Contest
2016  Reader at ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2016  Reader at SSC Howlers and Yawpers Festival in Seminole, Oklahoma
2016 Published "Fireflies and Stars" and "Girls in Baseball Caps" in Dragon Poets Review
2016 July – Selected as a Featured Reader  - Woody Guthrie Festival, Tulsa , Oklahoma
2016 Published "Renegade and "Redemption" in "Red River Review
2016 September – Selected as the Featured Poet – East Central University September Poetry Series
2016 November Pushcart Prize Nominee by Red River Review for “Renegade”
2016 Published "Cicadas", "Bring Me a Thumderstorm" and "A Game of Catch" in Poetry Bay
Online Magazine Fall/Winter Issue Oklahoma Special Section
2017 January Songs of Eretz Poetry Review Contest $1000 Grand Prize winner for “The Coast of
Oklahoma”
2017 Published "In a Leathered Web" and "Indian Paintbrushes" in Oklahoma Humanities Magazine
2017 Published "A Game of Catch", "Equinox", and "The Unknown" in the 2016-2017 Winter Issue
of  Dragon Poets Review
2017 Published "How the Hell Did I Get Here?" San Pedro River Review Spring Vol. 9 No. 1
2017 Published "Missing" in Illya's Honey Spring Issue
2017  Reader at ECU Scissortail Writer's Festival in Ada, Oklahoma
2017 July – Selected as a Featured Reader -Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah, Ok.