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Joel Fallon (June 16, 1931 - August 11, 2016)[1] was the first Poet laureate of Benicia, California. He is the namesake of the Joel Fallon poetry scholarship[2] awarded annually since 2015[3] to high school students in Benicia, California. He was a founding member of the Benicia First Tuesday Poets, which meets at the Benicia Library monthly since 2003,[4] and also helped begin the Benicia Love Poetry Contest[2] and the annual Poets’ Picnic.[2] He was named Benicia's first poet laureate in 2005.[4] He helped Genea Brice[4] advocate for a poet laureate program in neighboring Vallejo, California. He also served as a vice president of Arts Benicia.[1] Fallon began writing poetry while serving overseas in the United States Army.[4] He was influenced by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Charles Bukowski.[3] His successors include Robert Shelby, Ronna Leon, Lois Requist, Don Peery, Johanna Ely, and Tom Stanton.[5]

Joel Fallon
Benicia Poet Laureate Joel Fallon
Born	(1931-06-16)June 16, 1931
Died	August 11, 2016(2016-08-11) (aged 85)
Occupation	Poet laureate of Benicia, California

Works

Collections

• Peery, Don, ed. The Book of Joel (Benicia Literary Arts, 2019)[6]

Chapbooks

• Apple Wind[3]
• A Gathering of Angels[3]
• Clean Sheets, Dirty Woman[3]
• Shanghai Wilson[3]

Albums

• Fallon Reads Fallon (2010)[3]

See also

• Robert Shelby
• List of municipal poets laureate in California

References

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