Background
Simolke (pronounced SMOKY) was born in New Orleans.
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Duane Simolke
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Texas Technical University.
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He edited and co-wrote the spin-off The Acorn Gathering and donated the royalties of that work to the American Cancer Society. "Acorn" refers to a fictitious town somewhere in isolated west Texas. His father was Frederick J. "Pete" Simolke (1938–2001).
"Pete" had a twin brother, Carl Wayne Simolke (1938–2006) of Shreveport.
Simolke"s paternal grandparents were Frederick "Pappy" Simolke and the former Mattie Brown. Simolke grew up in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, in north Louisiana.
He attended a Baptist Church and graduated from Minden High School in 1983. Simolke thereafter procured three academic degrees in English.
In 1989, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
He obtained his Master of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University, another Baptist-affiliated institution, in Abilene in Taylor County, in west Texas in 1991. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Texas Technical University in Lubbock in 1996. Simolke"s works have been published in a variety of journals, including nightFire, Mesquite, Caprock Sun, Midwest Poetry Review, and International Journal on World Peace.
Simolke is openly gay.
Numerous essays and poems rose from my inner conflicts. Much of that writing, along with some of my earlier works, would later become my book Holding Maine Together.. All of my books reflect the reality of human diversity.
If encountering gays or people of color bothers you, then you probably won"t like most of my writing". In 1997, Simolke founded the gay online newsletter "Rainbow Lubbock".
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According to his website: "After a lifetime of denial, I finally began to accept my homosexuality — a process made even more difficult by my religious fundamentalist background and mindset.
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