Kent Fielding

Kent Fielding – educator, editor, poet, literary activist –  currently lives in Southeast Alaska. He co-founded White Fields Press and the literary renaissance with Ron Whitehead in 1992 and worked with writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Gregory Corso. He is the director of GonzoFest (https://gonzofest.net/) a celebration of the writing of Hunter S. Thompson and recently produced GonzoFest 2026: New York City (July 16-19) and Insomniacathon 2024 (a 57-hour non-stop poetry and music event). Fielding is an Honorary Kentucky Colonel, a BP Teacher of Excellence, an Alaska Teacher of the Year Finalist, and a 2021 Alaska Speech and Debate Coach of the Year. He has taught in the Marshall Islands, at Jefferson Community College, University of Alaska Southeast, Mt. Edgecumbe, Skagway High School, and at summer institutes in Turkey and Latvia.  Author of a two books of poetry, River Church (Radial Books 2025), and Chief Iffuccan (Wasteland Press 2002); a chapbook, The Revolution is About to Begin; and a broadside “Museums”(Cheek Press 2023); his work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Asheville Poetry Review, The Jefferson Review, Pavement Saw, Modern Haiku, The Beat Scene, Gently Mad Magazine, Boog Literature, Gut Punch Literary Journal, Bronze Bird Review, and Tidal Echoes, among others. His next book, Letters to My Daughters will be published in Fall of 2027.