A Newsletter For Poets & Poetry Volume 6, Issue 1 – April 2001

Stafford Poetry Readings enjoyed by all

The invitations went out and the people came. “This is a special tribute to all of us who share the They came to celebrate the birthday of William courage and spirit to create from deep within and Stafford and share his seek the free expres- written word, in a sion of literature and series of events spon- Easter Morning co n s c i e n c e , ” said Kit sored by Friends of Stafford in an article . Maybe someone comes to the door and says, from the Bend “Repent,” and you say, “Come on in,”and it’s Bulletin. Nancy Paulann Petersen, Jesus.That’s when all you ever did, or said, Winklesky, FWS FWS Events or even thought, suddenly wakes up again and Board Member, said Coordinator, organ- sings out,“I’m still here,” and you know it’s true. “It was like coming ized and hosted all of You just shiver alive and are left standing out of the dark on a the readings in the there suddenly brought to account:saved. winter night, into the BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Portland area; other warmth and light of Chair: Joseph Soldati, Port l a n d Except maybe that someone says,“I’ve got a deal readings were held in gathered friends, and Nan Atz en, Newberg for you.” And you listen, because that’s how Salem, Bend, Eugene, into the light of Brian Booth, Port l a n d you ’ re trai ned – they told you , “Al ways hear both sides . ” Ashland and William Stafford.” Patricia Carver , Lake Oswe g o So then the slick voice can sell you anything, even Vancouver, where Mar tha Gatchell, Drain Hell, which is what you’re getting by listening. David Benedicktus of At the West Linn Ceil Huntington, Lake Oswe g o Well, what should you do? I’d say always go to the Northwest Poetry Library, Beth Fender Paulann Petersen, Port l a n d the door, yes, but keep the screen locked. Then, Coalition was the from Derbyshire, Shelley Reece, Port l a n d while you hold the Bible in one hand, lean forward host. Dorothy England, read the Dennis Schmidling, Tua l a t i n and say carefully, “Jesus?” Stafford was the hon- poem Ask Me in her Helen Schmidling, Tua l a t i n ored guest at each of – William Stafford crisp, British accent, Nancy Win k l e s k y , City the metro-area read- Used with permission, Graywolf Press to the audience’s Patty Wix on, Ashland ings, where she read delight. She had just some of her favorite poems and shared a few recently “discovered” Stafford’s poetry, and NATIONAL ADVISORS: personal stories about Stafford. exclaimed, “I am really hooked on William Marvin Bell Stafford. I plan to take his poetry back home, to Robert Bly Featured poets and readers at the various celebra- my poetry group!” Kurt Brown tions included Primus St. John, Walt Curtis, Joan Lucille Clifton Maiers, Judith Barrington, Judith Montgomery, Marjorie Crew read Being Eighty (see page 6) a James DePreist Barbara Drake, Sandra Williams, Jane Glazer, poem written by Bill Stafford in honor of Donald Hall Howard Johnson, Jerry Ramsey, Ellen Waterston, Marjorie’s husband, Irwin Crew, on the occasion Maxine Kumin Dick Sandvik, Ellen Santasiero, Kyla Merwin and of his 80th birthday. She shared a precious memo- Li-Young Lee many others. Each read a Stafford poem, then one ry of how Bill enjoyed the gathering of friends Ursula Le Guin of their own, written in the spirit of Stafford. and neighbors, and even the mailman, for their Chris Merrill casual backyard parties. W.S. Merwin Following their readings, members of the audience Naomi Shihab Nye were invited to read a Stafford poem as their gift At all of the readings, there was an aura of Gary Snyder to him. The response was tremendous; there was warmth and affection for Stafford. “It was a testi- an outpouring of love and affection as guests mony to his importance, by being there,” reflected shared their memories and anecdotes of Stafford, Winklesky. “often with a connecting theme - relations, farm- ers, grandfathers, midwest origins,” said Betty Joseph Soldati, FWS Board Chair, said “Poetry Barton of Vancouver. evokes an aura of spirit and reverence, of awe, and Continued on Page 6

Friends of William Stafford is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of poetry and literature, using the legacy, life and works of the late award-winning Oregon poet William Stafford. 2

OSPA’s colorful history includes April Poetry Month events

Mention the Oregon State Poetry On April 30, 1956, charter members of the NFSPS Manningham Trust Student Association and most people, including Verseweavers met to draw up the OSPA Awards competition and captured five of many poets, draw a blank. That’s because, constitution and bylaws. They nominated 40 national prizes. (This year’s results until a few years ago, Oregon’s oldest Fuller, then poetry editor of The won’t be known until May). state literary group threatened to join Oregonian, as Oregon’s first (and only) Artquake, LitEruption and the Portland woman Poet Laureate. The group’s activities include a fall poetry Poetry Festival as a fond memory. conference and Poetry Day, a spring poetry OSPA’s Vera Joyce Nelson, twice presi- festival and National Poetry Month obser- OSPA suffered from a malaise common to dent of Verseweavers, proposed Stafford vance in April, and two annual contests. A organizations of all types. Vital stalwarts as Poet Laureate in a letter to Gov. Tom quarterly newsletter and an anthology of grew old and dropped out, leaving a void. McCall, accompanied by a petition signed prize-winning poems, titled Verseweavers, by poets and poetry lovers. In 1974, are published. The list of early stalwarts reads like a lit- McCall (literally) bestowed the laurel erary Who’s Who: , wreath in a ceremony at Portland’s On April 14, book fairs and National Poetry , Laurence Pratt, Ada Museum Art School. In 1996, current Month readings are set at all eight Barnes Hastings Hedges, Mary Carolyn Davies, president David Hedges launched an & Noble stores in Oregon, with a portion of Vern Bright, Howard McKinley Corning, effort to revitalize OSPA. The new mis- profits going to OSPA’s youth programs. William Stafford. Three of Oregon’s four sion statement stressed outreach and Last year’s benefit raised more than $3,000. Poets Laureate. (The exception, Edwin inclusiveness. The group rejoined NFSPS. Readers include Vern Rutsala, Ingrid Wen d t , The Man With The Hoe Markham, served New programs were initiated. Primus St. John, Judith Barrington, Barbara from 1921 to ’31, long before OSPA was Membership quadrupled. Drake, Carlos Reyes, Lawson Inada and a gleam in anyone’s eye.) Judith H. Montgomery. In 1998, foundation grants provided for Stafford served on the OSPA Board of the first of an ongoing series of family OSPA’s mission for the 21st century is “to Directors in the early 1960s, and twice poetry workshops at rural libraries, in bring together and nurture the widest pos- was appointed honorary chancellor of the partnership with the Oregon Center for sible community of Oregon poets; to help National Federation of State Poetry the Book. Noted Oregon poets guide Oregon poets, young and old, develop Societies (NFSPS). youngsters and adult mentors through the their talents and skills; to stimulate, at the creative maze, then all involved produce a grassroots level, a statewide appreciation OSPA sprouted in 1956, a statewide out- chapbook of workshop poems. of poetry; and, to raise public awareness growth of Portland’s Verseweavers Poetry of Oregon poets, past and present.” For Society, founded in 1936. Verseweavers OSPA’s 1999 success story was the more information, write to OSPA, P.O. persuaded Oregon Governor Douglas Oregon Student Poetry Contest. In three Box 602, West Linn, OR 97068; email McKay to designate Oct. 15 as the state’s years, it has drawn more than 2,400 [email protected], or visit the website first Poetry Day. The group then asked entries. Winners receive prizes and are www.oregonpoetryassociation.org. McKay to appoint Poet Laureate published in Cascadia: The Oregon Lampman, who was honored at the 1951 Student Poetry Contest Anthology. In the – Submitted by David Hedges Poetry Day banquet. first two years, Oregon winners entered on behalf of OSPA Sharon Doubiago to present reading, workshops at Marylhurst

“Writing the Voices of the Soul” a work- trusting one’s voice as an author, while Coast and Body and Soul. She provides shop with Sharon Doubiago, will mark relying on sound, rhythm, meaning and workshops throughout the Americas, as National Poetry Month at Marylhurst feeling. Doubiago encourages writers to writer/poet in residence in Wyoming, University. A poetry reading will be held honor the stories of their lives. Tennessee and Guatemala. She has also in Wiegand Hall, April 18 at 7:30 p.m., Participants may bring works-in-progress taught at the Coos Bay Writers Festival. after which the author will answer ques- for discussion. The workshop is open to She grew up in Southern California, and tions. Doubiago will direct a workshop on writers in all genres: poetry, fiction, non- now lives in Oregon, where she’s working April 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a fiction. Call (503) 636-8141 for registra- on her latest book. post-session on May 10 from noon to 3 tion information. Doubiago’s book-length p.m. The writing activities directed by poems include Hard Country, South – Submitted by Joan Maiers Doubiago will provide touchstones for America Mi Hija, Psyche Drives the Marylhurst University FRIENDS OF W I L L I A M S T A F F O R D 3

Notes from the Chair

New Board Member, Newsletter Revisions “How the Ink Feels.” You can refer to the article about We welcome to the FWS Board Patricia Carver, who is also, the exhibit’s current and beginning with this issue, the new editor of the newsletter. FWS upcoming locations on Page Board Member Helen Schmidling is providing technical (com- 4. Be sure to see it when it puter) assistance, design and layout for the Newsletter. As this comes to a venue near you. current edition demonstrates, Pat and Helen are giving the Newsletter a new look. For more on Pat and Helen, see the Spread the Word related article on Page 5. Give this newsletter to a We’d like your feedback about our newsletter. What do you friend and tell him or her think of the redesign? Are more there things you’d like to see in about the Friends of William Paulann Petersen, Joe Soldati upcoming issues? Please let us know. You can drop us an email Stafford. Do more than just at [email protected] or send a note directly to me, hint at the fact that there is a membership form on Page 7. Ask [email protected], or mail a note to FWS, P.O. Box 592, Lake them to join us in the promoting, reading, writing and enjoyment Oswego, OR 97034. We welcome your feedback. of all of the literary arts, and the freedom of expression.

Thank you notes – Joseph Soldati, FWS Chair

For the past five years, Patty Wixon, a charter board member and its former chair, has edited the Newsletter while doing a myriad of tasks for the organization. FWS would not be what it is today without Patty’s seemingly tireless efforts. Our gratitude The Man Who Drinks Up Sound to Patty for all of her hard work on behalf of FWS – in the past, William Stafford says there’s a thread present and future – is long overdue. Patty, thank you! you follow, but today you follow

If you attended any of the William Stafford Birthday the river.William Stafford says Commemorative Readings held in Oregon during January, you downstream they have killed the river know how wonderful and inspiring they were. People of all ages and built a dam – a dam empowering and backgrounds celebrated Stafford’s birthday by reading and a bank of computers that whines hearing many of his poems. annoying noise in this library. While virtually all of the FWS Board Members had some part in You say dam the white noise – these events, Paulann Petersen, FWS Events Director, is primari- ly responsible for their success. We offer huge thanks to it’s tinged with black. William Stafford Paulann, herself a widely published poet, who has already begun writes rivers of poems on his manual planning for next year’s “birthday parties.” Thanks also to FWS typewriter, clacking like a train Board Member Bob Hamm who designed and produced the on the right track. You say black noise posters and flyers for the readings. Tinged with white sounds better.William After you finish reading this newsletter, check out the new Stafford says what the river says, official FWS website, www.williamstafford.org, that has been That is what I say, as he follows designed by FWS Board Member and webmaster Dennis the sound of his mind to the silence Schmidling. While all the components of the web page have yet to be built, the material that’s there already attests to Dennis’s beyond. hard work and his knowledge of electronic media. Thank you, Dennis. – Kathleen LaMear© used with permission For her ongoing work as Broadside Exhibit Coordinator, FWS Kathleen LaMear lives to write in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She was inspired to write this poem after viewing the William Stafford Exhibit in Watzek Board Member Nancy Winklesky also deserves our heartiest Library at Lewis and Clark College, August 4, 2000. She is enormously thanks. Nancy promotes, schedules, ships, and sometimes even grateful for the glorious others who share her years here on earth. repairs the crates and frames of this traveling exhibit, entitled FRIENDS OF W I L L I A M S T A F F O R D 4

Former Poet Laureate Pinsky gets warm Portland welcome

Thursday, March 1, was cool and rainy, ages, from every state, in a wide variety but the ambiance in the Arlene Schnitzer of occupations and professions, and from Concert Hall was warm and welcoming all cultural backgrounds. The Favorite for Robert Pinsky, America’s 39th Poet Poem Project “provides a portrait of the Laureate. His lecture was part of the United States through the lens of poetry,” Portland Arts and Lecture Series, spon- Pinsky said. sored by Literary Arts Inc. The project grew into a video archive and Christopher Zinn, executive director of a book, America’s Favorite Poems, edited the Oregon Council for the Humanities, by Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, and pub- introduced Pinsky and explained his phi- lished last year by W.W. Norton. One of losophy on poetry. He called Pinsky “a William Stafford’s poems, Scars, was hero for poetry today” because he included, nominated by Lisa Frye Kinkel renewed the love for poetry in the eyes of of Nashville, TN. The poems can also be everyday Americans. Dorothy Stafford talks with Robert read online www.favoritepoems.org. Pinsky after his presentation in Portland. Pinsky told the audience how he has Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Pinsky always loved the sounds of words and the makes it an art on an individualized and studied at Rutgers and Stanford, where he cadence of music. He recalled that, as a personal basis,” Pinsky said. “The Air completed his master’s and doctoral work. child in New Jersey, when he rode the inside the chest, shaped into sounds in the He has given up his position as Poet train, the conductor would call out larynx and mouth, makes poetry just as Laureate to 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz, “Passengers going to Hoboken, change physical an art as dancing,” Pinsky writes and now teaches in the graduate creative trains at Summit.” Over and over, he sang in The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide writing department of Boston University those words in his mind, until he forgot to (1998). and is the poetry editor for Slate, an get off at his station. His first favorite online magazine. His latest book, Jersey poem was Robert Louis Stevenson’s Land “It’s almost as if we sing to one another Rain, was published by Farrar, Straus & of Counterpane with its poetic meter and all day,” he said. “Poems are to be cele- Giroux in 2000. childlike images. brated as part of our nation’s cultural inheritance.” Pinsky’s mission is to teach At a wine-and-cheese reception that Pinsky also learned to play the saxophone people to hear those sounds, and be aware followed his lecture, Pinsky met and at an early age, and planned to become a of the rhythm and cadence that they hear. chatted with Dorothy Stafford. Although musician, but instead turned to poetry, he never met William Stafford, he said with all of its vocal sounds and beats. After the Library of Congress appointed that he always enjoyed his poetry. The him Poet Laureate in 1997, Pinsky created Friends of William Stafford presented him “For me, there’s only vocal poetry … the Favorite Poem Project. During the with a copy of Stafford’s book, The Way what’s on the page is only an imitation of one-year open call for submissions, It Is, as a special thank-you for coming what you hear. The medium of poetry is a 18,000 Americans wrote to the project, to Oregon. human voice … the voice of whoever volunteering to share their favorite poems. loves the poem and says it aloud. That Poems were submitted by people of all – By Patricia Carver ‘How The Ink Feels’ at Chemeketa Gallery in Salem

“How The Ink Feels,” FWS traveling Medford. This fall, the exhibit will be manually operated letterpresses, a tech- exhibit of letterpress broadsides, will be shown in the library at Western Oregon nique, which has changed very little since on display in the Chemeketa Community University in Monmouth. More informa- the Middle Ages. These pieces are collab- College Art Gallery in Salem, April 2-28. tion on this show will be in the July orations by the printer, the writer and the The exhibit enjoyed a successful tour newsletter. “How The Ink Feels” features artists. More information is available from earlier this year, at Southern Oregon 64 matted and framed letterpress broad- Nancy Winklesky, Exhibit Coordinator, at University in Ashland and Rogue sides of poetry and prose by well-known (503) 655-1443 or send email to Nancy Community College in Grants Pass and writers. Most pieces were printed using at: [email protected].

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New staff for Stafford Newsletter Broadsides for sale Sales of letterpress broadsides featuring Stafford poems A Ritual You have probably noticed by To Read To Each Other and Why I now that this familiar newslet- Am Happy benefit the Friends of ter has a new look. William Stafford. These framable works of art, each gently illustrat- After 17 issues, Patty Wix o n ed, make great gifts at just $10 has resigned as writer, editor each, plus $3.50 for shipping. To and publisher of the Friends of place an order, make checks William Stafford Newsletter. payable to FWS and mail to Nan Patricia Carver of Lake Oswego Atzen, 29365 NE Putnam Road, and Helen Schmidling of Newberg OR 97132. Tualatin are teaming up to write, edit and publish the Newsletter, Marjorie Sandor starting with this issue. Author Marjorie Sandor will be at Clackamas Community College Carver, a retired Registered Helen Schmidling and Patricia Carver discuss changes in for a reading April 10 from noon Nurse, is a 1984 Liberal Arts the FWS Newsletter with former editor Patty Wixon. to 1 p.m. in the McLoughlin graduate of Marylhurst Theatre. Sandor is the author of College. She is the author of of others that would be sure to surface if a A Night of Music (stories), and The The Brief History of the Good Samaritan national call was made for them. Night Gardener (essays). She won Hospital School of Nursing, 1890-1992. She the 2000 Oregon Book Award for met Bill Stafford in 1992 when she invited Wixon has worked with sound engineer Frank literary nonfiction, and a 1998 Ron him, as her class project, to a course she was Sullivan in Ashland to transfer Staffo r d ’ s Jaffe Foundation Award for Short taking at Marylhurst. She has also taken tapes to Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and then Fiction. She teaches creative writ- writing classes at Haystack Summer to CDs. She wrote liner notes and indexed the ing and literature at Oregon State Program in Cannon Beach, and most recent- poems read on each CD – more than 450 in University. ly, she participated in summer classes at The all. When the project is completed, these mas- Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She has ters will become part of the holdings in the Favorite Poem Night five grandchildren, is a member of OSPA, Literary Archives of William Staffo r d . Annie Bloom’s Books, Multnomah and enjoys growing orchids on her win- Village, is having a Favorite Poem dowsill. Wixon has also been involved with a second Night on Wednesday, April 11 at project, a video on poet Lawson Inada, cre- 7:30 p.m., inspired by Robert Schmidling was a writer and editor with the ated and produced by Michael Markee and Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project. Plattsburgh Press-Republican, a daily news- Vince Wixon, creators of three popular Come prepared with a poem and a paper in Plattsburgh, New York, for more videos on William Stafford. The 25-minute brief statement why it’s special to than 22 years, before moving to Oregon in video, Lawson Inada: What It Means To Be you. Readings should be no more 1995. Helen and Dennis make up The DSA Free, has been seven years in the making than five minutes, and should be Group, specializing in graphic design and and includes Inada reading nine poems at published works by a poet other marketing communications. various locations in Oregon and California, than yourself. In case of overflow, along with photos and historical film footage Annie Bloom’s staff will choose With her newsletter duties set aside, Wixon from the National Archives in Washington, 15 readers from a signup list. For is concentrating on two projects that are D.C., and the Japanese American Historical more information call (503) 246- nearing completion. Three years ago, she Museum in Los Angeles. Patty has been 0053 or write to ablooms@tele - began a project for the Literary Archives of responsible for historical and archival port.com. William Stafford. This involves more than research, permissions, graphics, marketing 125 reel-to-reel and audio cassette tapes of and distribution. Lawson Inada: What It Stafford giving readings, lectures and inter- Means To Be Free will soon be available. views, all given to Stafford as a courtesy Call (541) 482-0543 or email Patty Wixon at after the events. The tapes span a time from [email protected]. Patty Wixon 1959 to 1993, and include just those record- served as FWS chair for five years, and will ings given to Stafford, and not the hundreds remain on the FWS Board of Directors as secretary.

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Unmarked Snow and The Way It Is, Birthday events… a collection of new and selected poems. Continued from Page 1 Being Eighty Stafford’s poetry especially evokes a cer- Stafford liked being surprised with how No big deal, anyone could do it tain feeling of reverence for nature, people images and words grew into a poem. “My just count by tens: ten, twenty, and life itself.” poems are organically grown,” he often thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, told his students. He said that his finished seventy – and you’re there, Someone once asked Stafford if he was poems were a miracle, a gift that he and perched on the little island religious, and he responded, “Not in a way God wrote together. Stafford was born Jan. with the cake on it, that you would expect.” He seemed to 17, 1914, in Hutchinson, Kansas, but lived ready to sing all those years again have a universal spirituality that went and taught here in Oregon. Although he and untie the ribbons. beyond boundaries or labels. His manner died nearly eight years ago, he is still a was soft-spoken, but his beliefs were firm- – Used with permission part of the Oregon landscape, his poetry ly rooted in his Quaker upbringing. remembered and embraced by many.

During World War II, his pacifist beliefs Most venues were standing-room-only. led him to serve as a conscientious objec- There was laughter, hugs from old and tor, a very unpopular position in those new friends, birthday cake, and even a few days. His memoir, Down In My Heart, tears. Stafford often said in parting, “I’ll recounts that time in his life. than 35 books of poetry, two books of see you everywhere.” And so we will. prose, and his memoir. Two more books Stafford wrote almost every day, in the have been published since his death, – By Patricia Carver quiet of early morning. The result is more Calendar of Events

APRIL MARJORIE SANDOR: Reading, April 10, JAMAICA KINCAID: Reading at Portland Noon-1 p.m., McLoughlin Theatre, State University, April 23, 7 p.m. Free. HOW THE INK FEELS: FWS Broadsides Clackamas Community College. Reception in PSU Ballroom, 6 p.m. Exhibit, April 2-28 in the Art Gallery at Chemeketa Community College, Salem. FAVORITE POEM NIGHT: Bring your POETRY READING: Poetry & refreshments, favorite poem to a reading at Annie April 25, 11 a.m. Lake Oswego Adult HEN RY TAYL O R : Poetry Reading, April 4, 8 Bloom’s Books, Multnomah Village, April Center, 505 G Ave., (503) 635-3758. p.m. at PSU, free. Sponsored by Mountain 11 at 7:30 p.m. (503) 246-0053. Writers Series (MWS) (503)236-4854. MAY ROBERT WRIGLEY: Poetry Reading, April HEN RY TAYL O R : Poetry Reading, April 5, 8 13, noon, MHCC Visual Arts Theatre. (503) HEATHER MCHUGH: Poetry Reading at p.m. at Reed College, Free. 236-4854. The Old Church, May 3, 8 p.m. $10 / $8 MWS Members (503) 236-4854. FIR S T FRI D AY ART NIG H T : April 6, hosted ROBERT WRIGLEY: Reading with bassist by FWS and Rogue’s Gallery at Firehouse Glen Moore, April 13, 8 p.m., Mountain HEATHER MCHUGH: May 4, 8 p.m., Poetry Art Gallery, Grants Pass, 6-9 p.m. Showing Writers Center. Lecture: “Mirrors and Misgivings” video “What the River Says.” Mountain Writers Center, (503) 236-4854. ROBERT WRIGLEY: Poetry Lecture: “On HEN RY TAYL O R : Poetry Lecture: “On James Dickey”, April 14, 10 a.m., CRYSTAL WILLIAMS: Poetry Reading, May Poetry and Historical Research” April 7, 10 Mountain Writers Center. 11, noon at MHCC Visual Arts Theatre. a.m. at Mountain Writers Center. ROBERT WRIGLEY: Poetry Master LAKE OSWEGO FARMERS MARKET: Poetry Workshop, April 14, 1-4 p.m., Mountain and music every Saturday May 19-Sept. 29, Writers Center $60 / $50. Millennium Plaza Park. To participate, call FRIENDS OF WI L LIAM STAF F O R D Kathy Kern (503) 675-3983. Newsletter© is published four times a year. OSPA POETRY MONTH READINGS: April 14, 2 p.m., at all eight Barnes & Noble GERALD STERN: Poetry Reading with Editor/Copy Writer: Patricia Carver stores in Oregon. Featured readers and bassist Glen Moore at The Old Church, Publisher/Copy Editor: Helen Schmidling open mike. May 23, 8 p.m. $10 / $8 MWS Members; Designer: Dennis Schmidling Free to PSU Students, (503) 236-4854. Send information for next issue to: SHARON DOUBIAGO: Writing The Voices of FWS, P.O. Box 492, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 The Soul” Poetry Reading, April 18, 7:30 JUNE p.m., Wiegand Hall, Marylhurst University. or email: fr i e n d s @ w i l l i a m s t a f f o r d. o r g (503) 636-8141.Writing Workshop, April BRI A N DO Y L EA N D ANN I E CAL L A N : Re a d i n g 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Mountain Writers Center, June 8, 8 p.m. FRIENDS OF W I L L I A M S T A F F O R D 7

MEMBERSHIP ROSTER FOR 2001 P.O. Box 592, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034 Lifetime Members Web: www.williamstafford.org • Email: [email protected] George & Elizabeth Bar ton –2001 Marilyn S. (Marsh) Noll – 2001 Shelley Reese – 2001 MISSION STATEMENT: Patty & Vince Wixon – 2001 Our mission is to provide ongoing education in literat u r e, parti c u l a r ly in poetry, in a way that will Linda Richard – 2000 en c o u r age and enrich a broad community of readers and writers. In the spirit of William Stafford’s Sulina Malzin – 2000 gifts as a teacher, we are also devoted to the free expression of literat u r e and conscience. We seek ways J. Alma Tedrow – 2000 to share his work and advance the spirit of his teaching and literary witness.We direct our work New Members – 2001 toward education in local communities, to contribute to the poet’s legacy for generations to come. Abigail Brandt Don Colburn MEMBERSHIP FORM: Rosemary DaCosta William Stafford’s direct work as a writer ended with his death in 1993, but through the Friends of Joyce Epstein William Stafford, his gifts as a teacher continue. He traveled widely in pursuit of the free expression of Joseph Fitzgibbon & Jacqueline literature and conscience. We aim to continue to spread his work, “a plain unmarked envelope Webster passing through the world,” by advancing the spirit of his teaching. By joining the Friends of William Ruth S. Hoover Stafford, you will be contributing to his legacy for generations to come. Annual membership includes: Rodger Larson • Newsletters that let you know about activities of Friends of William Stafford; Northwest Poetry Coalition • A forum to promote poetry in your community; Laurence Overmire • Opportunities to volunteer for Friends of William Stafford projects; Ronald Rasch • A network of other poets, writers, and poetry organizations. Lawrence A. Tyle Liz Vesecky Bill Stafford was about poetry, and so is the Friends of William Stafford. Your membership dollars Kathleen Worley support our own newsletter and web site as well as the reading, writing and enjoyment of poetry. Renewals – 2001 Laurie Aussererr Date: Grover & Dorothy Bagby Name: Tim Barnes Address: George & Elizabeth Barton Sally Bryan City: State: Zip: Country: Betty Burke Email: Phone (with area code): Pat Carver Barbara Chatton Business/Institutional Address OR Gift (Send to) Address: John & Georgia Crampton Name: Karen Dalrymple Address: Madeline DeFrees Bob & Molly Dusenbery City: State: Zip: Country: Joanne Hart Email: Phone (with area code): Hideo Hashimoto Sally & Mike Kilpatrick Membership: Volunteer Opportunities: Nan Noreen (Please check ALLappropriate boxes!) (Check any you’re interested in) Paulann Petersen [ ] New [ ] Renewal [ ] Gift [ ] Organize Poetry Readings in your community Joe Soldati [ ] Standard $25 [ ] Retired $10 [ ] Help with Refreshments/Set-up Dorothy Stafford [ ] Student: $10 [ ] Lifetime $150 [ ] Distribute Posters/Flyers Michael Stubbs [ ] Publicize Upcoming Events Bonnie Minden Ward How did you learn about Friends of William Sabine & John Wild Stafford? Jeanne A. Lohmann Dennis & Helen Schmidling Payment: Karyl Severson Please make check payable to “Oregon Community Foundation fbo Friends of William Stafford” Barbara C. Smith Mail to: Friends of William Stafford, PO Box 592, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Nancy Winklesky If you have not renewed your membership in 2001, please do so now. If you have, please share this form with a friend who would like to join. Or consider a gift membership. Thank You. THANK YOU MEMBERS!

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www.williamstafford.org

That is where you can find us now, on line. Our official website, designed by FWS Board Member Dennis Schmidling, has moved from its previous location of www.wmstafford.com

We are in the process of giving the site a new look and feel, and making it more user-friendly. Please look us up. Here are a few of the new features:

• Online viewing of past newsletters;

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• share poetry and link to poetry websites;

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