Bob McAllister - Poetry
Together with
Everett Thompson and
Nancy Rekow, Bob McAllister is the editor of
Island of Geese and Stars: Bainbridge Island Poets and Artists (1984). The book is a collection of poems which came out of the Bainbridge Writing Workshop. McAllister, a former Bainbridge Island High School English teacher, was named an
Island Treasure in 2001. He continues to be active in the local performing arts scene and in 2004 directed Bainbridge Performing Art's production of
Joe Bean, a grunge-rock opera written by Marc Nichols, a former student of McAllister's.