For the past twenty-five years he has been a teacher of literature, writing, and an administrator at colleges and universities in Colorado, Florida, and since 1979, in Pittsburg, Kansas. Stephen Meats, a professor at Pittsburg State University, has the answer to this in his first book, Looking for the Pale Eagle . He surprises the reader at every turn with moments of humor, intimacy, and even Epiphany. He shows that poetry is a necessity. This is a colorful and whimsical book.
Meats also describes the semi-rural life of a small town.
But most of all, he writes about the possibilities of the human mind, as we follow him on fantastic voyages of language.