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News and Upcoming Events
This winter and spring I'll be dividing my time between home and a writing retreat on an Eastern Oregon ranch, revising previously published essays and writing new ones toward a collection, tentatively titled Reports from the Far Corner: Northwestern Essays. This book will be published in Spring 2009. One of the new essays, "In Praise of Darkness," appears in the current issue of Southwest Review. I'm also writing poems again and have a New and Selected volume in mind.
I'm often asked when and where I'll be teaching. As teaching engagements come along I post them on this event calendar. Currently I'm not doing much, but I may teach privately again in the not-too-distant future.
Jack Shoemaker, editor of three of my books, has merged Shoemaker & Hoard, fomerly a division of Avalon Publications, with Counterpoint, formerly a division of the Perseus Books Group. The new house, under the name Counterpoint, is still headquartered in the Bay Area and continues to publish books by Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Evan Connell, Greg Keeler, me, and many other writers. Of special interest to Wallace Stegner fans, Jack has just published The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, edited by Page Stegner. The book is a rare and remarkable look into the mind and heart of one of the best American writers of the 20th century.
Rogue River Journal is bubbling along in a third paperback printing. The response to this book has been very gratifying. My thanks to all its readers.
My essay, "A Word in Favor of Rootlessness," is included in The Future of Nature, a new anthology from Milkweed Editions edited by Barry Lopez. The book collects 31 pieces first published in Orion magazine. Many of the usual nature writing suspects appear, plus many writers not so well known.
Sandy Tilcock, proprietor of lone goose press in Eugene, has published a broadside of my poem, "Dependence Day," from All Things Touched by Wind. Sandy's fine letterpress and bookbinding work is known and celebrated regionally and nationally. She also has a few copies left of the broadside she made a few years ago of the poem I was commissioned to write as an interior frieze in the expanded Fern Ridge Library in Veneta. The poem, untitled, begins, "Read then, if you will..." For information on these broadsides and other works by Sandy Tilcock go to www.lonegoosepress.com or email info@lonegoosepress.com.
The application deadline for the 2009 and 2010 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residencies is March 1st, 2008. For the residency description and guidelines, go to the Odds & Ends page of this website and click on the Boyden Residency. The specific web address is http://www.johndaniel-author.net/mdb-res.php. Please spread the word to any writers you think might be interested.
You can reach me at johndaniel48@yahoo.com.
The following readings and appearances are scheduled.
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Master of Ceremonies, Oregon Book Awards | Location: Portland Art Museum
City: Portland, Oregon
Date: November 9, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
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