Rex W. Pulliam, Jr.

I was born in 1966, in Richland, Washington. I would spend the next fifteen years moving across America. This was required because of my father’s career. The most memorable years in that period were the five years spent in Minnesota, between 1971 and 1976. Much of the poetic depth found in my epic poem “The Poet’s Ring” is from that period.

In 1981 our family made a permanent move to Houston from Kansas City. My father’s career peaked, so most joyously we stayed. High school football, college football played in southern Missouri, and midnight yell-practices in College Station, Texas would fill my character.

Additionally, Love would find me in College Station, and most respectfully, leave years later, when we were living in Dallas. To all great Poets a Muse will come, and intensely inspire. Much like the mythical Phoenix, Muses appear from the pains of Love. In my case, a divorce Divined the great Muse. At the same time I completed my MBA from an educational Phoenix, the University of Chicago. Which prepared me well for the challenges lying just ahead.

I arrived in California in 2000 ready to become an entrepreneur, or a Poet left to his own devices. Thus began this phase of my life. I am still here in California, specifically in Los Angeles. I came here from the High Desert area near Palm Springs. There my brother and I operated a successful general-engineering contracting business.

A passion of mine began to find the light of day back in the High Desert. I found myself learning with the most ardent desire Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literature. And it was from this experience that I decided to bring my passion for literature to life. This literary decision was gained exclusively by Emerson’s profound influence.

In 2009 the recession began to bring unwanted stresses to our engineering business, and in this malaise my poetry really took off. At that point, and with about ten years of small business experience, “The Poet’s Ring” epic poem idea was incubated.

About twelve years would go by (2004 – 2016) crafting sonnets and studying economics, physics, philosophy, and literature, within my career’s after hours. Until at last, all 3,235 of the epic’s sonnets were composed, and critical ideas-of-interest for each essay thought of.

When I am not writing I can be found traveling to unique places, or hunting, golfing, playing beach volleyball in Santa Monica, or just enjoying the conversations from a healthy social life.

M.B.A., University of Chicago
B.S. Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
A.S. Pre-Engineering, Southwest Baptist University