Stephen Leon Pearson is a Colorado writer and musician. He has been writing poetry and improvising music for over 50 years. His favorite instrument upon which to improvise is the Native American Flute. He recorded a number of CDs and uploaded them to CDBaby. CDBaby quit selling CDs when the industry moved to streaming music. A link is provided below to Stephen's music and videos on YouTube. Stephen's music can also be found all over the Internet from websites that provide streaming services but you won't find any new NAF CDs recorded by Stephen as he has retired from recording his music. He will continue to play Native American Flute along the trails of Colorado and if you are lucky, you may hear his flute in the distance.
Stephen wrote his first novel Red Licorice and the Five Goddesses when he was in his early 70s! While at first glance at the title you may think it is Science Fiction or Fantasy but it is not. It is about Love, Art, Music, Theater, Dance, Mystery and Louis, Susan, Liberty, Sylvie, Beth, Dianne and the others who inhabit those worlds. It begins in 1969 when the Viet Nam war occupied the minds of young people. It ends in 2017. The two time periods are technologically contrasted by Sylvie's letters to Louis in 1970 with Louis's search for Sylvie that finally ends in 2016 when he discovers, using the Internet, the life that she lived the previous 40 years.
Stephen's book of poetry, Odometer, is now on sale. An odometer measures the distance that you have traveled. This odometer measures moments with poems dispersed across life like mile markers. They begin when the poet was a college student of 20 in 1966 and end with the last poem written when he was 78 in 2023. This is 58 years of poetry that runs the gamut of life and transcends the gauntlet of emotions from youth to older adult. There are 403 poems scattered over 20,842 days and they begin on September 5, 1966, with this first line,'i must create.'