Andrew Oerke was a Peace Corps Director in Africa and the Caribbean, and for many years president of a private and voluntary organization, working in and visiting more than 160 countries.  Mr. Oerke was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship at the Freie Universität in Berlin.  His work has appeared frequently in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry,  and in many other publications in the U.S., England, France, Germany, Lebanon, Malawi, Kenya, the Philippines, Jamaica, and Mexico.  In 2003, he was given the award for literature by the UN Society of Writers and Artists.

Read Andrew’s Poetry:  

• THAT JUKE BOX HEART OF MINE

• A POET’S LIFE

• THE LATEST YARN

• THE GREAT PYRAMID