Vol.21 No.2 – Winter/Spring 2017
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• William Stafford and the Dawn of the Space Age by James Armstrong
• Drawing Connections in William Stafford's "Connections" by Elissa Herber
• Obelisk Inscription - Sandblasting a poem in stone
• The Immanent Stafford by Tim Barnes
• (Sculptor) Tomasz Misztal and The Wing Over the Shoulder
• Sightings: Beaver's Fire - A Regional Portfolio (1970-2010) by George Ven
• Chuck Worley, 1918-2016, conscientious objector
• Birthday Reading in Winthrop, WA, along the Methow River
• FWS to present panel, "An Afternoon in the Stacks - Encountering William Stafford in His Archive" at the American Literature Association (ALA) Conference in Boston, May 25-28.
• Elizabeth Bishop on William Stafford - an excerpt as reported by Don Colburn
• The Hutchinson News (KS)features article on Stafford by Kathy Hanks
• Naomi Shihab Nye, Anis Mojgani, Luis Alberto Urrea, Kim Stafford, Scott Russel Sanders, Debra Magpie Earling, Jamie Ford and others featured at Summer Fishtrap
• Poetry in Honor of Stafford April 18 at Lake Oswego Public Library
• "Words That Burn" by Cindy William Gutierrez is nominated for Drama prize at Oregon Book Awards. The play will be performed in Twisp, WA May 26-27.
• "For My Friends," an original piece of music by Todd Barton, performed at WS Birthday Reading in Ashland, OR.
• "My World: Remembering a 'very human' William Stafford" by Ronald Talney, from the Lake Oswego Review
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Connections" by William Stafford
• "Answer to a Passing Remark" by Patricia (Gow) Banta
• "2016 Election (In Two Movements) by James Armstrong
• "Thinking of My Father, Long Gone, in the Era of the Billionaire" by Kim Stafford
• Chief Joseph - Surrender Speech as typed on a card in - read three times by WS
• "Bill Stafford Says 'So Long'" by Chuck Worley - from "Poems and Lectures from Prison by A Conscientious Objector to the Good War"
Vol.22 No.1 – Fall/Winter 2017-2018
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Kindred Spirits: Stafford, Bouwsma & Wittgenstein by Tony Wolk & Shelley Reece
• Peter Sears, A Friend, May 18, 1937 – July 20, 2017 by Tim Barnes
• The Brinkmanship of Dawn: William Stafford and the “Feeling of the West” by James Armstrong
• The 2017 ALA and Beyond by Tim Barnes
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Dream of Following" by Peter Sears
• "With Neighbors One Afternoon" a new Friends of William Stafford Broadside
• "The Orphan” by May Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye
• "The Fires" and “Stafford in a C.O. Camp” by high school students in a “Words That Burn” performance workshop
• “Roll Call” by William Stafford
• “Time For Serenity Anyone?” by William Stafford
• "For the Record" by William Stafford
Vol.22 No.2 – Spring/Winter 2018-2019
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• The Ecopoetics of Home: William Stafford and Kansas by Ben Rawlins
• Sightings 1: Positionings by Tim Barnes
• Stafford and the Anthropocene: ALA 2018 by Tim Barnes
• Introducing Kim Stafford: Oregon’s New Poet Laureate
• Ursula K. Le Guin 1929-2018 and Donald Hall 1928-2018
• Sightings 2: Ecological Ethics by Tim Barnes
• Welcoming New National Advisors
• Never Let Go of the Thread and Pass the Ball by Tim Barnes
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "To Another Visionary: John Clure" by William Stafford
• "Another One for William Stafford" by David Athey
• "About the Future” by Jerry Williams
• "The Concealment: Ishi, the Last Wild Indian”by William Stafford
• “Daily Writing 23 January 1951” by William Stafford
• “William Stafford’s Ego” by John Fiedler
• "Trout" by Fred Marchant
• “Accretion” by Leslie Ullman
Vol.23 No.1 – Fall/Winter 2019-2020
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• Fighting Fires with William Stafford: The Tillamook Burn by James Armstrong
• Stafford: In Production by Ginger K. Hintz
• Seeds from a Seminar: by Tim Barnes
• W.S. Merwin (1927-2019): by Tim Barnes
• FWS at AWP and ASLE: by Tim Barnes
• Looking for William Stafford on the Yard: Part Two: by Tim Barnes
• Looking for William Stafford on the Yard: Part Two: by Shaun T. Griffin
• Notes for William Stafford’s Birthday, J20 Jan. 2019 by Lex Runciman
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• "Beyond the John Haines Place" by William Stafford
• "Counting for the Apparition of William Stafford" by Donald Levering
• "Choreographer” by Leanne Grabel
• "The American Teenager is Unstuck in Time (Don’t Know Much About History” by Michael Jarmer
• “For the Anniversary of My Death” by W.S. Merwin
• “Place” by JW.S. Merwin
• "Notes from an ASLE Conference" by Tim Barnes
• “William Stafford” by Catcher Kemerer
• :Letter to Paulann at Los Prietos” by Shaun T. Griffin
• “Ten Years After the Last Words” by Kim Stafford
• “American Gothic” by William Stafford
Vol.23 No.2 – Fall/Winter 2020-2021
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• William Stafford and Popular Modernism by James Armstrong
• Coping with the Dark Side: The exorcisms of Theodore Roethke and William Stafford by Allan Chavkin
• Losing and Finding William Stafford by Erica Goss
• Sightings: “Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners,” by Naomi Shihab Nye. New Your: Green Willow Books, 2018. “The Writing Party,” by Ken Waldman. Wimberly, TX” Mexcalita Press 2020. By Tim Barnes
• Joe Soldati, 1939-2019 by Tim Barnes
• Notes on the Legacy: Amy Fleury, Krista Tippet, Anis Mojgani, Caitlin Malinger
• A Note to Friends
• News, Notes and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Exorcism” by William Stafford
• “The Ghost of William Stafford” by Erica Goss
• “Old Growth” by William Stafford
• “The Shape of an Oak” by William Stafford
• “Bill Stafford, 100” by Ken Waldman
• “For the Birds: Why Not? – Dorothy Stafford’s late-life motto” by Naomi Shihab Nye
• “On Doubt and Bad Reviews” by Naomi Shihab Nye
• “Sestina for William Stafford” by Ken Waldman
• “Bill Stafford” by Ken Waldman
• “Scenes That Escaped from James Dickey Poems” by William Stafford
• “Inside Lincoln’s Head in the Black Hills” by William Stafford
• “A Wedge of Oak” by William Stafford
• “This Year” by William Stafford
• “Three Stories from Inside James Dickey’s Guitar” by William Stafford
• “The Child You Were” by William Stafford
• “Textures” by William Stafford
• “The Exorcism” by Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind, 1969
• From, “Tell Us All the Gossip You Know” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Vol.24 No.1 – Summerl/Fall 2021
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Near to the City of David” by William Stafford
• “All in A Glass Face in the Rain” by Erik Muller
• “In the Slant of My Hat: Composing Principle, William Stafford’s Democratic Poetics” by Tim Barnes
• Contributor’s Notes
• A Note to Friends
• News, Notes and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• “No Praise, No Blame” by William Stafford
• “Lone Rider” by William Stafford
• “Leaving Home” by William Stafford
• “A Thought that is Real” by William Stafford
• “The Way It Is Our Here” by William Stafford
• “Thinking of William Stafford in the CO Camp, Burning the Dead Limbs Thinned from the Flowering Cherry” by Shaun Griffin
• “Letter to William Stafford” by Shelly Reece
• “December 8 (thinking of William Stafford)” by James Armstrong
• “A Place for Words” by Tim Barnes
• “Serious Separate Things” by William Stafford
• “A Survey” by William Stafford