Route 66 - In Fiction, Poetry & Real Life

Ron Chavaz Route 66 writing

2008-05-01T13:48:00.002-04:00

A link to writer Ron Chavaz and some of his Route 66 poetry and stories.

Route 66 Cowboy Poem

2007-10-17T22:51:00.000-04:00

Go to this page of cowboy poetry, Cowboy Folks' Poems, to read the Route 66 poem, "Storm on Route 66." The site is maintained by Mr. Lynn Harwell.

The Route 66 Pulse - Online Newspaper

2007-05-05T16:32:00.000-04:00

The Route 66 Pulse is a new online newspaper about Route 66. It has news about Route 66, current events, links, and all kinds of good stuff. There's also a Route 66 poem entitled "Route 66 Today" by Marianne M. Logan. (Click on the link to read the poem posted on "Route 66 Pulse.")

America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66

2007-04-11T21:45:00.000-04:00

This is from Google Maps. It is a great snapshot look at Route 66, the places and the people.
America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66

Route 66 Poem

2007-03-21T12:06:00.000-04:00

"Route 66" - a poem by Robert W. Proctor. This is posted online at Route 66 Pulse.

* Please note, this is simply a link to Mr. Proctor's poem published elsewhere. This is a directory of Route 66 works and unless the author's work and name appears with it, then
we're simply giving you a way to find the work which was published by someone else. Thank you. - Rt. 66 Blog Publisher

Route 66 Novels

2007-03-21T12:00:00.000-04:00

Route 66 Novel Series includes such books as "Growing Up on Route 66," "Miss Route 66," and "Route 66 Kids." Website includes two sections for the reader and the listener. A 30 minute weekly old time radio series is coming soon. A description of "Route 66 kids" from the website: "Route 66 kids are the generation that grew up in America after World War II, experiencing childhood in the innocent 1950s but coming to adulthood in the turbulent 1960s. Route 66 Kids are also the "children" of novelist Michael Lund, each book a product of memory and imagination." Books are by Michael Lund.

Route 66 - Revisited

2006-11-18T16:49:00.000-05:00

Route 66 - Revisited,
poem by Richard Braley

Poetry in the Windows Views the Open Road

2006-10-14T15:54:00.000-04:00

POETRY IN THE WINDOWS
VIEWS THE OPEN ROAD
June 2 - June 30, 2001

From the Collective’s fourth Poetry in the Windows competition -
in honor of the nationwide commemoration of historic Route 66,
the contest featured poems that involved travel and journey,
either literal or figurative - travel through a physical landscape
or through time and space.

Poems by:
Richard Beban	Tina Demirdjian	Tish Eastman
Sesshu Foster	Robert Fritz	Leon Garcia Garagarza
Michael Gonzalez	Jessica Goodheart	Laurel Mitchell Hall
Stephanie Hemphill	Linda Anne Hoag	Terryl Hunter
Kaaren Kitchell	Cheryl Klein	Patricia E. Literte
Manuel Luna	Jeffrey McDaniel	Brenda Miller
Majid Naficy	Jim Natal	Jeanne M. Nichols
Sherman Pearl	James Ragan	David St. John
Jackson Wheeler

The Highways of Our Past

2006-10-14T15:51:00.000-04:00

Route 66 Poem by Ainsley Jo Phillips --
also in chapbook, A TALE OF FIVE AUTUMNS.

Haiku by Drew Knowles

2006-08-16T21:46:00.000-04:00

Haiku by Route 66 author Drew Knowles. He is the author of the "Route 66 Adventure Handbook." Find out more about Route 66 and Drew at Route 66 University building the most complete and comprehensive source for Route 66 information on the web.

Pit Stop on Route 66

2006-07-22T15:00:00.000-04:00

Pit Stop on Route 66
by  Gustave A., III Boehn       

ISBN: 1403355843

Growing Up on Route 66

2006-07-22T14:55:00.000-04:00

Growing Up On Route 66 by Michael Lund. Autobiographical Fiction. Michael Lund grew up in Rolla, Missouri.

This is a novel set in a Missouri small town.

The central characters are Mark Landon and Marcia Terrell.

ISBN: 1888725311

Song of the Road

2006-06-01T11:14:00.000-04:00

Song of the Road By Dorothy Garlock is a
romance novel set on Route 66.

Murder on the Mother Road

2006-04-29T15:28:00.000-04:00

Murder on The Mother Road, a mystery by Brenda Weathers. Libby is on her way to Albuquerque in her new motor home. She takes Route 66, the Mother Road and when she stops for coffee at the Knight's Rest Motel and Café she stumbles across an old college sorority sister, her dead brother, and their assorted crazy relatives rushing in to claim the family fortune.

Route 66 - Romance of the West

2006-04-22T12:42:00.000-04:00

Several stories make up Route 66: The Romance of the West put together by Thomas Arthur Repp a veteran writer and photographer whose previous books include "Route 66: The Empires of Amusement." Find out more at Mock Turtle Press.

Rt 66 - Fiction Book List

2006-04-06T13:39:00.000-04:00

Fiction Books Dealing with Route 66 & Sites in Between lists several authors and
the locations off Route 66 where the book takes place.

Another Rt. 66 Poem

2006-03-30T16:20:00.000-05:00

Along Route 66 by
Scott Brown Laughlin.
It's about traveling
through Hackberry
and Kingman.
Here it is!

A Route 66 Poem

2006-03-26T15:56:00.000-05:00

Here's a Route 66 poem by Richard Braley
called aptly enough "Route 66." If this link
doesn't work go to this one, Poem Hunter
and type in Richard Braley.

Route 66 Haiku #5 and #6

2006-02-25T14:34:00.000-05:00

By LB Sedlacek

Ted Drewes frozen
custard won't melt when turned
upside down.

Rainbow bridge
off road in Kansas,
Riverton.

More Route 66 novels by Michael Lund

2006-02-16T21:42:00.000-05:00

Route 66 Novel Series

Route 66 Fiction - Route 66 to Vietnam by Michael Lund

2006-02-14T16:04:00.000-05:00

Route 66 Fiction - Route 66 to Vietnam by Michael Lund

After September 11, 2001, novelist Michael Lund found that the emerging War on Terror recalled aspects of the Cold War in the 1950s. And his experience as an Army correspondent in Vietnam (1970-71) offered clues to the demands a new generation of America's youth would face in the 21st century. Route 66 to Vietnam: A Draftee's Story traces the fate of Mark Landon and other children from Growing Up on Route 66 (an earlier novel in the Route 66 Novel Series) through Southeast Asia and on to prosperous--if troubled--times later in life.Successful highway engineer Mark Landon is irritated by a sore tooth, by a rebellious teenage son, by a daughter's lack of interest in her promising athletic career, by his wife's apparent indifference to his needs, and by Ralph Banister, whose land is blocking the path of the highway Mark must build. Beneath these everyday worries, however, memories of his time in Vietnam are stirring. To survive a mid-life crisis, he begins to fear that he must not only confront the challenges of the present but also the ghosts of his wartime experiences. In doing so he learns surprising things about his wife's past, about his children's abilities, and about Ralph Banister's vision for America.

Route 66 Haiku #4 by LB Sedlacek

2006-02-13T22:28:00.000-05:00

Oatman burros.
Feed them carrots, corn.
Desert trip.

Route 66 Haiku #3 by LB Sedlacek

2006-02-13T22:27:00.000-05:00

World's largest
In Oklahoma
Totem Pole

Route 66 Haiku #2 by LB Sedlacek

2006-02-13T22:26:00.000-05:00

Catoosa.
Feel Jonah's spirit.
The Blue Whale.