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News and Upcoming Events
October, 2011
Great news on the publication front. Of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 1978-2010 will be published in Fall 2012 by Lost Horse Press, of Sandpoint, Idaho and Dillon, Montana. Lost Horse, an independent nonprofit literary press founded in 1998, publishes mainly poetry titles, all of them in beautiful editions. Christine Holbert, founder and publisher, has recently established a publishing curriculum at University of Montana Western, in Dillon, and divides her time between UMW and her home--and the Lost Horse home office--in Sandpoint. Lost Horse Press books can be purchased directly from the press website and also are distributed by the University of Washington Press. Of Earth will contain roughly half the poems in Common Ground, half the poems in All Things Touched by Wind, and a like number of newer poems, for a total of 65 or so. I'm particularly happy to bring back into print the best of All Things, which went out of print shortly after publication in an ugly edition in 1994. Other Oregon poets with books from Lost Horse include Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, Sean Gillihan, and James Grabill. I'm delighted to be joining the list.
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Applications for the 2013 and 2014 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residencies open December 1, 2011 and close March 1, 2012. For residency description and application instructions click on the Boyden Residency button to the left of this News and Events column. For photos of the residency site, Dutch Henry Homestead, see AWP Writers Conferences & Centers.
2011 resident Josie Sigler is thriving at Dutch Henry and writing up a storm. The 2012 resident, poet Justin Gardiner, presently of North Carolina, intends to stay through the winter.
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The working title of my novel-in-progress is Gifted. I'm 135 pages into a draft, which I estimate to be somewhere beyond the halfway point. I've got a long way to go to finish the draft and do the vast reworking that will be necessary to shape it up, but I'm enjoying the journey.
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The Far Corner, to my sincere surprise, won the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. You can read the judge's comments by clicking the button on this website's home page. Randi Bjornstad's review of the book, "The many sides of living in Oregon," appeared in the Sunday, April 5, 2009 issue of the Eugene Register-Guard. A longer piece by Jeff Baker was published in the Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Oregonian.
The Far Corner, like Rogue River Journal and Looking After, is published by Counterpoint Press in Berkeley, California.
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My essay, "East to the West," appears in an anthology of contemporary writers thinking out loud about writing and the West. West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West came out last month from the University of Texas Press. The collection is edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland.
Another essay, "Writing West," is included in Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest, an anthology published earlier this year by the University of Washington Press. Edited by Penny Harrison, the collection consists of pieces that first appeared in the magazine Open Spaces.
The magazine website is Open Spaces.
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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 lone goose press or email info@lonegoosepress.com.
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You can reach me, as always, at johndaniel48@yahoo.com.
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The following readings and appearances are scheduled.
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William Stafford Celebration Talk and Reading | Location: Beaverton City Library
City: 12375 SW 5th,
Date: January 22, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM
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