Volume 5, Number 2 - Summer, 2006
When I Lift Myself off the Ground -- A Remembrance of John Sterne
Volume 5, Number 1 - Winter, 2006
A Note to Our Readers
The Local Scene
An Insidious Turn in the Terrorist Threat
America in One of its Periodic Fits of Morality
The News is Not New
Spiritual Dialogue with Sri Shivalingum Biggum
Music Country
Giving Hell to the Declaimer Department
The Presidency Within Reach
The Place for Poetry
Volume 2, Number 1 - Winter, 2003
The Season of War
Does Poetry Have a Place?
The Future Is Ours at Last
The Mail Drop
Keeping an Eye on the Bong
The National Bird
The First Trillium
Volume 1, Number 2 - Fall, 2002
A Nefarious Plot
The Sporting Scene
A Note to Our Readers
The War That Was
The Bird-in-Chief
The Place for Poetry
Beyond the Season of Sloth and Degradation
Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring, 2002
Loud Neighbors
The Local Scene
Community Service Announcement
Horoscope
Democracy Lite
Giving Hell to the Declaimer Department
OC in T Department
The Place for Poetry
The Speedup
As chair of PEN Northwest, a regional branch of PEN American Center, I administer an annual writer's residency on the Rogue River homestead where I spent the winter I wrote about in
Rogue River Journal. It is, as far as I know, the only long term backcountry writing residency anywhere. In exchange for an hour a day of routine upkeep of the property and its two cabins, the resident receives use of the homestead and its unparalleled solitude for up to one year, and the support of a modest stipend. The biennial application process is open to all kinds of writers and poets; extensive publication is not mandatory. Individuals, couples (with or without children), and partnerships of two may apply. The next application period runs from December 1, 2007 through March 1, 2008.
Click here for the full residency description and application guidelines.
To read more about the program and hear from some past residents, see my article, "A Fertile Meadow Far From Town," in the Winter 2000 issue of
Open Spaces magazine.
Click here to read it online.
To read the blog of 2005 resident Gary Whitehead, go to:
http://garyjwhitehead.blogspot.com.
