Vol.14 No.1 – Fall 2009
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Rekindling Passion for the Methow River Poems
• In Celebration of the William Stafford Room at the Watzek Library
• Leah Stenson, Arnie Dyer, Linda Gelbrich join the Friends of William Stafford Board
• From the Chair, Shelley Reece, approaching President Obama with a Stafford Poem, "Choosing a Dog"
• Fourth Annual Poetry & Potluck at Foothills Part at the Stafford Stones
• William Stafford Peace Symposium; a three day event sponsored by the Northwest Writing Institute and the Special Collections at Lewis & Clark College with collaborations of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission and the First Unitarian Church of Portland
• "Learning from Women," a workshop at Fishtrap at Willowa Lake Lodge by Friends of William Stafford National Advisor, Ursula K. LeGuin, Molly Gloss and Tony Vogt
• Mathew Dickman receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
• Last of the Limited Edition Broadside Portfolios, "The Earth Speaks Everything to Us" by the Friends of William Stafford is donated to the Oregon State Poetry Library in Salem, Oregon
• NPR's Morning Edition features John Felstiner's choice of "The Well Rising" as the single poem that cold save the world
• Paulann Petersen gets ready for a season of celebrations of William Stafford's birthday with January 2010 readings world wide
• Sulima Malzin resigns as editor of the Friends of William Stafford Newsletter
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Time for Serenity, Anyone?" by William Stafford
• "What;s in My Journal" by William Stafford
• "Preparation" by Linda Gelbrich
• "Choosing a Dog" by William Stafford – 2008 William Stafford Broadside
• "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford – 2009 William Stafford Broadside
• "Merci Beaucoup" by William Stafford
• "A Valley Like This" by William Stafford – one of the Methow River Poems
• "At the Stafford House in Fall" by Nan Wylder Sherman
• "At the William Stafford Archive" by Kim Stafford
• "Blessing" by Sulima Malzin
• "Prayer for William Stafford" by Carol Clark Williams
• "Retreat" by Scot Siegel
• "The Well Rising" by William Stafford
• "Being a Person" by William Stafford
Vol.15 No.1 – Spring 2010
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Principle and Poetry” – Discussion of Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp No. 21 at Cascade Locks, Jeffrey Kovac; Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems, John Felstiner
• “William Stafford’s Aphorisms” by Paul Merchant, William Stafford archivist
• “Some thoughts on William Stafford” by Ger Killeen
• Celebrating Dorothy Stafford's 94th birthday
• Stories from the January Readings
• Tribute to William Stafford by Robert E. Gerber
• Paulann Peterson, Board Member of the Friends of William Stafford selected as Oregon's eighth Poet Laureate
• Haydn Reiss announces the release of his documentary film "Every War Has Two Losers" based on William Stafford's journal with the same title and edited by Kim Stafford
• Stafford Studies Inaugural Issue released "William Stafford and His First Publishers: The Making of the West of Our City and Traveling Through the Dark"
• Sightings (Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau, John K. Roth; Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding our Darker Selves, James Hollis; Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, A Merging of Past and Present Voices, Matt Love – by Tim Barnes
• News, Notes and Opportunities: Paul Willis reviews "Another World Instead"; Don Hall records American Poets; William Stafford Award for Poetry at $1000.00
• Fifth Annual Poetry & Potluck at Foothills Park, near the Stafford Stones
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Easy" by William Stafford
• " Spring Song" by Lucille Clifton
• "Definitions from Unmuzzled Ox Special Issue, The Poet's Encyclopedia" by William Stafford
• "How We Came to Be" by Kim Stafford
• "The Greatest Story Ever Told" by David Young
• "To William Stafford" by Gail Barker
• "Tribute to William Stafford" by Craig Brandis
• "Watching the Jet Planes Dive" by William Stafford
• "Climbing Along the River" by William Stafford – a Special Edition Broadside by John Laursen of Press 22
• "Biker Chick" by SSSAKURAI
• "Eastern Oregon" by Mark Thanman
• "Jeremiah at Miminagish" by William Stafford
Vol.15 No.2 – Fall 2010
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Of Earthen Beast and Other Muses”– an interview with Stafford for Alchemy Magazine, a San Francisco University literary magazine done in 1975
• “Stafford, Sandburg, and the Aphorism” By Paul Merchant
• W.S. Merwin, Friends of William Stafford National Advisor, named U.S. Poet Laureate
• Pleasures of the Friends of William Stafford Poetry & Potluck at Foothills Park, near the Stafford Stones
• "Not in the way you expect" by Paulann Petersen
• A visit with Doug Stow and Paper Crane Press: creator of Friends of William Stafford letterpress broadsides
• “A Certain Kind of Light: William Stafford and the Nonviolent Tradition (Discussion of An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature, Michael True; Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941, Philip Metres; Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing, Jeff Gundy) By Tim Barnes
• News, Notes and Opportunities: Viggo Mortensen recites Stafford poem at Dennis Hopper's memorial; Stafford Poem on the National Mall; Student poetry contest; Poems for Peace; Los Prietos Interpretive Sign placed honoring Stafford as a conscientious objector during WWII; New essay by Jonathan Holden titled "William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage" and more...
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Peace Walk" – William Stafford
• "Old Glory" by William Stafford
• "B.C" by William Stafford
• "Little Rooms" by William Stafford
Vol.16 No.1 – Spring 2011
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Some time when the river is ice…" an article by Greg Simon
• “Reflections on the Mystery of William Stafford” an essay Dennis McBride
• "Stafford at the U of O" by Mark Thalami
• On, "Letting Go with Both Hands" by Robin Bagai
• Report on "January Dispatches: Reports on Stafford Birthday Celebrations"
• “Kansas Patriotism and the Tang of the Moon” a discussion of Kansas Poems of William Stafford: Poems, Essays, & Interviews, 2nd, Denise Low, edited by Tim Barnes
• John Haines, lon time poet friend of William Stafford, dies
• “Every Mink Has a Mink Coat and Other Archival Animations” by Paul Merchant and Vince Wixon
• News, Notes and Opportunities: Stafford on the Map of Kansas Literature; Sixth Annual Poetry & Potluck; Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts Poetry Reading; The William Stafford Online Reader; the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship through Literary Arts
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Little Girl by the Fence at School" by William Stafford
• "Why I keep a Diary" by William Stafford
• "Rockjack" by Ursula K. LeGuin
• " Stafford Ball Back Home" by Steven Hind
• "The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine" by John Haines
• " Staring at Souvenirs of the West" by William Stafford
Vol.16 No.2 – Fall 2011
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Report on a Stafford U.S. Postal Stamp Proposal by Dennis Schmidling, Chair of Friends of William Stafford
“A Story That Could be True: By Don Colburn
• “Introduction to Rapport från en avlägsen plat [Report from a far place] 60 William Stafford poems in Swedish” Translated by Lars Nordström
• Barbara Drake Joins Friends of William Stafford Board
• U.S. Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, affinity with William Stafford
• “Selections from Feeling at Home: An Interview with Dorothy Stafford”
• "A Little Bit of All Right, the Potluck" at Foothills Park in Lake Oswego, near the Stafford Stone
• "Place" – an essay about poetry as place by Paulann Petersen
• Sightings: the Poets Laureate Anthology, Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, ed., Twentieth-Century American Poetics, Gioia, Mason, Schoerke, Stone, edited by Tim Barnes
• News, Notes, and Opportunities" Planning Summit for a William Stafford Centennial in 2014; Carl Adamshick publishes a piece about William Stafford in Tin House; Jeff Grundy, poet and essayist, authors "Touching A New Kingdom: On William Stafford and Peace"
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "American Poet, William Stafford, 1914 – 1993" by Don Emblen
• "Blue River Night: September" by Barbara Drake
• "On the Corner" by Philip Levine
• "Supermarket" by William Stafford
• "Pretend You Live in a Room" by William Stafford
• "Close" by George Staley
• "Lemons" by Jane Elder Wulff
• "William Stafford, February 4, 1974" by Michael Wendt
• "On a Church Lawn" by William Stafford
• "Smoke Signals" by William Stafford – Friends of William Stafford Letterpress Broadside – 2011
• "Lighting the Fire at 4AM" by Sam Muller
• "The Grove of Trees" by Don Colburn
Vol.17 No.1 – Spring/Summer 2012
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “William the Gentle, the Fierce, the Prophetic” By John Daniel
• “Fifteen and the Dream of Now” Bob Balmer
• Winter News: The Birthday Celebrations – Reports from around the world
• The Guesthouse in the Monastery: On the Spirit of William Stafford” By Daniel Skach-Mills
• A Remembrance of Brian Booth at the Oregon Book Awards
• "A Friend's Memorial for Brian Booth, 1936-2012" by Tim Barnes
• Planning for the William Stafford Centennial in 2014
• Sightings (Prairie Prescription: Ten Nebraska Poems, Kim Stafford; Oregon English Journal: Literature Across Borders, Ulrich Hardt, ed.) By Tim Barnes
• News, Notes and Opportunities: Carl Adamshick wins the Stafford/Hall prize for poetry; Stafford Stamp Proposal; the Sixth Annual Poetry & Potluck event; Walt Curtis on Bill Stafford; Vince Wixon Interview
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "The Day I Almost Met William Stafford" by Ron Rasch
• " Thinking for Berky" by William Stafford
• "A Ritual to Read to Each Other" by William Stafford
• "The Years" by Barbara Ford
• "Serving with Gideon" by William Stafford
• "Frank's Stones" by Kim Stafford
• "The Stafford Stones" by James Flemming
• "Fifteen" by William Stafford
• "Our Story" by William Stafford
• "Dream of Now" by William Stafford
• "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford
• "A Memory of William Stafford" by Rainy Knight
• "For the Unknown Enemy" by William Stafford
• "Being A Person" by William Stafford
• "Flight Instruction" by Joseph Green
• "The Way It Is" by William Stafford
Vol.17 No.2 – Fall 2012
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
* “Looking for William Stafford on the Yard” By Shaun T. Griffin
• “Kooser and Stafford: A Literary Friendship” By Shelley Reece
• Susan McKee Reese Joins the Friends of William Stafford Board
• Scot Siegel leaves the Friends of William Stafford Board
• Friends of William Stafford at Wordstock
• "Brian Booth Memorial – Addendum" by Tim Barnes
• "At Our Best: The Poetry Potluck" – A report on the annual event at Foothills Park, near the Stafford Stones
• “Poetry, Pastoral Care, and a Few Other Things” (Discussion of the Poet’s Gift: Toward the Renewal of Pastoral Care, Donald Capps) By Tim Barnes
• “I’d Do It Again (Discussion of “We Have Just Begun to Not Fight”: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in Civilian Public Service During World War II, Heather T. Frazer & John O’Sullivan) By Tim Barnes
• News, Notes and Opportunities: William Stafford is Poet of the Month on Swedish Public Radio; Poet's Letters – the correspondence of William Stafford on display in Portland; Original Stafford poem discovered in APSU Library; Stafford writing contest; Lower Your Standards panel at 2013 AWP conference
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Paradise" by Susan McKee Reese
• "Valedictory for any graduating class" by Scot Siegel
• "Reading with Little Sister: A Recollection" by William Stafford
• "Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron" by William Stafford – A FWS Broadside
• "Cutting Loose for James Dickey" by William Stafford
• "On Turned Backs at the Poet's Table" by Elizabeth Raby
• "Why We dropped the Bombs" by George Staley
• "A Telephone Line Grows Cold" by Jarold Ramsey
• "Outwitted" by Edwin Markham
• "Briefing Bill Stafford, 7 A.M." by D.R. James
2012 Stafford Birthday Events
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• A Schedule of Stafford Readings and Celebrations Around the World
• "King, the Elevator Man, and Me" by Joel Nightingale Berning
• Dorothy Stafford celebrates her 96th birthday
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Serving With Gideon" by William Stafford
• "Remembering William Stafford" by Naomi Shihab Nye
• "Passing a Creche" by William Stafford
• "A Poem for Dorothy Stafford" by Paulann Petersen
• "When I Met My Muse" by William Stafford