Joel A. Barker

About Joel A. Barker

Joel Byron Barker fly fishes and runs and adores dogs. He has lived 96% of his life in Oregon, currently residing in the Central Oregon high desert. Along with Leo Marcel Schuman, he publishes about America's urban rural interchanges at oldtruckgoodcoffee.com.The best job Joel ever had was pulling cable for computers and phones in 1997. He spent his off time writing long poems to try to sort the world out. To this day he is seeking ways to braid together community, technology, and the outright unstoppable beauty around us.