Sidney M. "Sid" Benson

     Sidney M “Sid” Benson was born November 22, 1937 in Willard, Torrance County, New Mexico, USA. The oldest son of Roland Clark Benson and Berta Kathleen Smith Benson.

         

     “Writing was a natural for me as my mother’s family were pioneer newspaper people in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas,  West Texas and New Mexico. I began writing Poetry in 1958.

 

     My father’s family migrated from Alabama, after the Civil War, to West Texas and eventually to the Estancia Valley in New Mexico. There, my parents met and were married. Discussions of events in the west were often, in our home, and this is where I learned the  vernacular of the Cowboy.

 

     Educated mostly in Yuma, Arizona, I was in the class of 1956 at Yuma Union High School. Some years later, I attended Arizona Western College majoring in Creative Writing.

 

     As a member of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1960, I served in the Submarine Service aboard the USS Tilefish SS 307 and re-commissioned the USS Oriskany CVA 34.

 

     I now reside in the state of my birth, New Mexico, and yet feel a kinship with the serenity of Arizona and the Sonora   Desert Nights, with it’s myriad of stars.

 

     “Throw not your dreams away, and love with all your might… keep faith, respect and dignity, and life should turn out right”.  Sidney M. “Sid” Benson

 

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Sidney M. “Sid” Benson

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PO Box 417

Timberon, New Mexico  88350

(575) 654-8241