Vernon Schmid
represented by Melissa Lee
Born in Parsons, Kansas, Vernon Schmid is a prize winning poet, journalist, and novelist. He was a wrangler, trail guide, rough stock rodeo competitor, rock-a-billy singer, community theater director, horse trainer and riding instructor, newspaper reporter and editor, radio newscaster and disc jockey before entering the United Methodist ministry.
With degrees in journalism, law, theology, and creative writing, he has taught at colleges in Missouri, Maryland and Colorado. A popular speaker, he has addressed secular, educational and religious gatherings across the country.
A fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation, he has been a member of fact-finding missions to Northern Ireland, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Mexico.
He was a 2004 nominee for poet laureate of Maryland and recipient of a Writers Digest Poetry Prize, Kansas East Conference World Peace Award, Associated Church Press Award for editorship United Methodist Reporter for Eastern Pennsylvania, Peninsula-Delaware Conference Commission on Religion and Race Lowan S. Pitts Award for Contribution to Race Relations in Community, Peninsula-Delaware Conference Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concern Award, Northwoods Press Poetry Prize, and the President’s Award for Outstanding Service to Western Writers of America.
Listed in The International Who’s Who in Poetry, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in Religion, International Dictionary of Biography, Who’s Who in the East, The Dictionary of American Poets and Fiction Writers, he is author of two dozen novels, poetry collections, plays and non-fiction books including Divine Fire, Radical Implications of the Eucharist, Jacob’s Trail, Code of the West, Watie’s Wolves, More Houlihans and Horse Sense, Cherokee Myth and Legend, Otium Sanctum, Westering, Showdown at Chalk Creek, Houlihans and Horse Sense, Seven Days of the Dog, Kissing Moctezuma’s Serpent and Hog Killers and Other Poems.
Over a thousand of his articles, feature stories, poems, book reviews, and columns have been published in more than a hundred newspapers and periodicals in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. His published writings are collected at both Drew University’s Methodist Library and Labette Community College.
Lady Bird and The Tejano: A Texas Tale
This is a true story. In some ways, it may mirror many stories of twentieth century Mexican-Americans in rural Texas with one major exception. The central figure in the story is a Tejano who never learned to read or write and yet became a trusted employee and confidant of the exceptional First Lady of the United States, Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson. His name is Feliziano Muñoz. Lovingly called Viejo by his eldest son, he shares his memories of a unique life journey beginning as a barefoot boy on a 120,000-acre ranch in the remote Texas Hill Country and culminating in his quarter-century relationship with Lady Bird Johnson.
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