Vol. 8 No.1 – January 2003
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Stafford Birthday Readings begin Jan. 7
• Birthday Readings Calendar
• Notes from the Chair: FWS helps sponsor Confluence Press Project, "Ask Me: Poetry In Public Places."
• Poetry Downtown will feature James Tate, Louise Gluck, Galway Kinnell
• Member Profile: Jim Hepworth and Confluence Press
• National Advisor Profile: Christopher Merrill
• Ceil Huntington leaves FWS Board
• "How The Ink Feels" travels to Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire
• "Blue Dusk" by Madeline DeFrees awarded 2002 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize by the Academy of American Poets
• Ursula K. LeGuin and Junot Diaz win PEN/Malamud Award
• Ruth Lilly bequeaths $100 million to Poetry magazine
• Ashira Y. Belsey - 1932-2002
• "Eating Locally, Thinking Globally" winter workshop at Fishtrap
• Oregon Book Awards - Willa Schneberg, Poetry, "In the Margins of the World"; Rich Wandschneider, Literary Nonfiction, on behalf of Alfred Habegger, "My Wars are Laid Away in Books"; also Gina Ochsner, Sara Ryan, Carla Perry.
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "One Evening" by William Stafford
• "Note" by William Stafford
Vol.8 No.2 – April 2003
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• FWS Receives 501 (c) (3) Designation from IRS
• April is National Poetry Month: Oregon events listed
• Stafford Birthday Events recapped, from Oregon to Kentucky
• Poets speak out for Peace Around the World - Reading at First Unitarian Church in Portland
• National Advisor Profile: M:axine Kumin
• Stafford retrospective by Dick Sheffield in Seattle Review
• Waldport C.O. Camp Exhibit at Lewis and Clark College
• Entries open for United Church of Christ Litarary Arts Contest
• Author Zora Neale Hurston on U>S> Stamp
• Writers' Workshop at Reed College
• "How The Ink Feels" at University of Portland
• FWS publishes sixth Letterpress Broadside - "You Reading This, Be Ready"
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "You Reading This, Be Ready" by William Stafford
• "Passing Remark" by William Stafford
• "Passing Remark" by Dorothy Stafford
Vol.8 No.3 – July 2003
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Display, "Ask Me: Poetry in Public Plalces" by Confluence Press goes up in the Asotin County Library, Clarkston, WA.
• A brief history of "Spirit of Place" - Heron named Portland's Official City Bird
• OSPA members sweep 2003 Founders Awards, sponsored by National Federation of State Poetry Societies
• Notes from the Chair: FWS needs your help to grow to the next level
• Oregon Poets "Raise Their Voices" against war ("Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against The War")
• Member Profile: Joan Maiers
• Writers On The Edge: Nye Beach series profiled
• National Advisor Profile: Li-Young Lee
• "The Sleep of Grass" pays tribute to William Stafford
• Howard W. Robertson of Eugene wins Tor House Prize for Poetry
• Ken Kesey statue to be unveiled in Eugene
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival stages "Lorca in a Green Dress," a lyrical look at Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca
• Sam Hamill's book "Poets Against the War" avaialble
• "How The Ink Feels" visits Coffin House in Enterprise
• Poet Carolyn Kizer to host Oregon Book Awards
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Ask Me" by William Stafford
• "Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron" by William Stafford
• "Willamette" by Joan Maiers
• "Out of Hiding" by Li-Young Lee
Vol.8 No.4 – December 2003
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Bill Stafford, Friendship, and the Scottish Poetry Library (with Don and Betty Balmer)
• Don Balmer remembers Stafford colleague Hideo Hashimoto
• FWS Member Profile: David Hedges
• Sulima Malzin and Herman Joyner join FWS Board as Co-Editors of Newsletter
• Notes from the Chair: Brian Booth resigns from FWS Board; the poetry of Eugenio Montale
• Stafford Stations to mark Willamette River walkway in Lake Oswego's Foothills Park
• Third Annual Stafford Symposium to examine pacifist views
• Upcoming 2004 Stafford Celebrations listed
• Kim Stafford a double finalist for Oregon Book Awards; Winners: Rita Ott Ramstead, Poetry; Cai Emmons, Novel; Tracy Daugherty, Short Fiction; Barbara S. Mahoney, General Nonfiction; Floyd Skloot, Creative Nonfiction; Eric A. Kimmell, Children's Literature; Heather Vogel Frederick, Young Adult Literature
• "To Shuman Heink" latest FWS Letterpress Broadside available
• OSPA Fall Conference Poetry Contest Winners
• Oregon Literary Coalition advocates for the arts by Peter Sears
• FWS Board Member Profile: Brian Booth (Steps down from board after eight years)
• An Evening with Billy Collins Jan. 14 in Portland
• "How The Ink Feels" at Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene (NH) State College, and next at Lower Columbia College Art Gallery in Longview, WA.
• FWS Member Erland Anderson publishes explicatons on "Ask Me" and "Father and Son."
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Why I Keep A Diary" by William Stafford
• "To Shuman Heink" by William Stafford
• "Last Light" by Herman Joyner
• "If My Father Had Died in August" by Sulima Malzin
• "Allegiances" by William Stafford
Vol.9 No.1 – February 2004
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• On Bill Stafford's Birthday - A Visit to the Mountain (Stafford Symposium at Lewis and Clark College)
• FWS National Advisor Li-Young Lee receives $25,000 fellowship from the Academy of American PoetsFWS
• Notes from the Chair: Great Writing is Timeless in Nature, Moving in Spirit
• FWS National Advisor Ursula K. LeGuin receives award from American Library Association
• "Catalyst: Politics and Culture" airs Stafford reading from CD on Minneapolis radio station
• FWS Member Profile: Nancy McDonald and Larry Overmire land in Portland, teaching acting and public speaking
• 41st Lake Oswego Arts Festival to commemorate hometown poet
• January Birthday Events Roundup from around the U.S.
• Billy Collins warmly received at Portland lecture
• "How The Ink Feels" at Western Wyoming Community College Library in Rock Springs
• Matt Groening and Lynda Barry coming to Literary Arts series
• Writers On The Edge movs to The Dogwood in Newport
• OSPA Spring Conference coming up at Marylhurst
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "The Magic Mountain" by William Stafford
• "For the Unknown Enemy" by William Stafford
• "A Memorial" by William Stafford
• "Still Life with Knife" by Laurence Overmire
Vol.9 No.2 – June 2004
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Report From the Archives: William Stafford Archivists Convert Pages to Posterity (at Lewis and Clark College) by Paul Merchant
• Remembrance of Unexpeted Meeting with Stafford inspires tribute by Gerald Tiffany
• The Answers are Inside the Mountains: A Review by Joan Maiers
• Walt Whitman quote inspires International Poetry Day ("I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face like a physician diagnosing some deep disease.")
• Notes From the Chair: On Horses, Peanut Briggle, and Poems of Exuberance by Joseph Soldati
• What, Exactly, is a Letterpress Broadside by Sulima Malzin
• In Idaho, summer students learn "How The Ink Feels" by Nancy Winklesky (Exhibit at The Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow)
• FWS members Daniel Skach-Mills, Joan Maiers, Jane Glazer claim Columbia River Keeper Poetry prizes
• FWS members David Hedges, Christine Delea, Penelope Scambley-Schott and Eleanor Berry claim OSPA Awards
• Eleanor Berry elected president of OSPA, succeeding Marianne Kleckacz.
• T.C. Boyle to kick off Portland Arts and Lecture series
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Note" by William Stafford
• "For English 210 at Cheney" by William Stafford
• "The Long Boat" by Stanley Kunitz (Broadside illustration)
• "Things That Come" by William Stafford (Broadside illustration)
• "Persephone Falling" by Rita Dove (Broadside illustration)
• "The Trouble With Reading" by William Stafford
• "Home Address (For William Stafford)" by Paulann Petersen
• "Globescope" by William Stafford
Vol.9 No.3 – December 2004
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Stafford Studies: Experiencing The Gift by Sulima Malzin - A report on the Northwest Writing Institute program
• Report From the Archives: Stafford's Early Writings showed promise of poetry to come by Paul Merchant
• Northwest Writing Insitute's fourth Stafford Symposium coming Jan. 22
• An Explication on Stafford's "Father and Son" by Erland Anderson
• Notes from The Chair: Adios and So Long by Joseph Soldati
• FWS holds first annual board retreat
• Upcoming William Stafford Birthday Events
• Ted Kooser succceeds Louise Gluck as Poet Laureate - William Stafford was a fan
• A word "Letter from Naomi Shihab Nye, Arab-American Poet: To Any Would-Be Terrorists"
• FWS Member Ingrid Wendt's "The Angle of Sharpest Ascending" wins two prizes
• FWS National Advisor W.S. Merwin receives $200,000 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe
• Liberal, Kansas high school renamed for Stafford, Fairchild
• "How The Ink Feels" at Central Oregon Community College in Bend
• Kay Ryan wins $100,000 Rugh Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "The Gift" by William Stafford
• "Father and Son" by William Stafford
• "Why I Say Adios" by William Stafford
• Selected Quotes from "Every War Has Two Losers" by William Stafford
• "Freedom" by William Stafford
• "In January" by Ted Kooser
• "12" by Ingrid Wendt
• "At Fourth and Main in Liberal, Kansas, 1932" by William Stafford
• "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford
• "A Message From the Wanderer" by William Stafford
Vol.10 No.1 – Spring 2005
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Tracking a Stafford Poem from 1977 – a trek through the Stafford Archives by Sulima Malzin
• "Stafford's Rudimentary Filing System Saved Only the Best" by Paul Merchant, Stafford Archivist
• Shelley Reece becomes the new Chair for the Friends of William Stafford
• From the Chair – reflections on the future of the Friends of William Stafford
• FWS benefactor Dr. Pierre Rioux visit Portland and discusses the importance of poetry
• Stafford's Quiet Spirit Felt at January Birthday Celebrations – an account of gatherings throughout the United States
• Eleven Complete Stafford Studies Program – an in-depth study led by Ann Staley and Wendy Turner Swanson with guests Paul Merchant, Dorothy Stafford, Kim Stafford
• Stafford Symposium Features Response Poems – reflections on the fourth annual Stafford Symposium at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon
• Naomi Shihab Nye scheduled for the fifth annual Stafford Symposium
• Karen Braucht's Aqua Curves Wins NFSPS Competition
• And now a word from one of our National Advisors – advice from Maxine Kumin
• FWS Poetry Reading precedes Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts
• FWS Poets Paulann Petersen, Peter Sears to Lead Mountain Writers Workshops
• News, Notes and Opportunities: Northwest Writing Institute at the William Stafford Center offers a Alternative Publishing Showcase; Ted Kooser starts a column, American Life in Poetry; the William Stafford Center announces a workshop on "Chapbook: From Manuscript to Print in Two Weeks"
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Coming Back to Richmond" by William Stafford
• "Tracking Stafford" by Shelley Reece
• "What's in My Journal" by William Stafford
• "Your Next Poem" by Fredda Jaffe - from Kirkland WA Stafford Celebration Chapbook
• "A Bird inside a Box" by William Stafford
• "The Little Girl by the Fence at School" by William Stafford
• "Lingering in the Damp" by Benjamin Thorny
• "Jellyfish" by Karen Broacher
• "News Every Day" by William Stafford
• "Burning a Book" by William Stafford
Vol.10 No.2 – Winter 2005/06
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Understanding Stafford through Yoruba Mythology by Sulima Malzin
• Report from the Archives: A William Stafford exhibit at Manchester College, Indiana by Paul Merchant
• Poetry Northwest returns to Literary Scene in 2006
• Notes From the Chair: Stafford Symposium "The Ddream of Now" by Shelley Reece
• Little things make up last summer's Stafford Studies by Susan Juve-Hu Bucharest
• "The World Speaks Everything To Us" - Broadside portfolio available through FWS
• The 2006 William Stafford Birthday Events listed
• FWS members enjoy Stafford Center's Grand Collaboration by Sharon Wood Wortman (chapbooks by Karen Ream Bnoff, Paulann Petersen, Jane Glazer, and Wendy Turner Swanson)
• FWS Board bids farewell to Nan Atzen Sherman
• From 1975 - A small selection of daily writings by William Stafford
• A Word from our National Advisor Gary Snyder
• Happy 100th Birthday to Stanley Kunitz
• "The Kansas Journey" by Jennie Chinn, new 7th Grade textbook, contains information on Stafford
• FWS National Advisor James DePreist receives National Medal of Arts from President George Bush
• Operation Paperback donates books to troops
• Winter Fishtrap explores "New Wealth in the Old West"
• Stafford Walkway in final planning stages along Willamette in Lake Oswego
• Judith Barrington to teach memoir workshop in Spain
• Elderhostel, Habitat for Humanity, and University of South Alabama collaborate to rebuild hurricane-devastated homes
• Billy Collins final judge for Poetry Center of Chicago's regional competition
• Visit Poet's House in New York City
• Austin, Texas plans 14th Annual International Poetry Festival
• Happy 90th Birthday to Dorothy Stafford
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Walking the Borders" by William Stafford
• "Ode to Bill Stafford" by Abayomi Animashaun
• "The Poet's Annual Indigence Report" by William Stafford
• "Light and My Sudden Face" by William Stafford
• "Cross That Line" by Naomi Shihab Nye
• "Little Things" by Susan Juve-Hu Bucharest
• "To Shuman Heink" by William Stafford
• "These Mornings" by William Stafford