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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
POETRY: Farmer9s
Market featured
special events
POET: Festival will
bring authors to
Sisters in October
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she said, <I try to help people
relax.
<If you9re pulling up a
vegetable from the ground,
there9s the roots, there9s
all the dirt hanging off the
roots,= she explained in an
appropriate metaphor for the
occasion. The writing that
emerges in her gatherings is
<your first impulse. Maybe
it is finished, but it9s not a
product.= Poignant, authentic
writing often results.
The playshop took place
on the Songbird Stage,
framed by a festive, white
Poetry Umbrella (courtesy
of Kit Stafford). Participants
sat in a circle and worked
together to create group
poems in the Surrealist style.
In these writing and art
games, known as <exquisite
corpses,= each creator only
sees a fragment of what oth-
ers are writing or making,
until the very end. Laughter
erupted as Castelbaum read
the resulting poems aloud;
some were surprisingly
coherent and interesting,
with emotional and narrative
arcs.
Each participant also
wrote a nine-line <snowball=
poem with Castelbaum9s
prompting, then shared these
aloud. The optional theme
was clouds, inspired by the
coiling, rolling sky of gray
that moved eastward all day,
sometimes bringing showers.
Co-presented by New
Oregon Arts & Letters, the
Food & Farms Haiku Contest
drew entries from around
Oregon and out of state, with
plenty of locals represented
as well. Several entrants,
including three winners in
the Youth category, read their
poems onstage. The win-
ning haiku will be published
in The Nugget Newspaper
beginning in next week9s
issue.
Local businesses donated
g e n e r o u s l y t o Te a &
Poetry. Prizes included gift
cards to Bedouin clothing
store, Suttle Tea teahouse,
Jackson9s Corner restaurant,
and Paulina Springs Books.
Market vendors were gener-
ous, too, donating homemade
pickles, Metolius Artisan Tea
chai, Sisters Farmers Market
totes, and gift certificates to
local farms Seed to Table and
Mahonia Gardens.
Sisters
Farmers
Market takes place every
Sunday through the end of
September, between 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. at Fir Street Park.
Special programs like Tea
& Poetry are funded in part
by grants from the City of
Sisters and The Roundhouse
Foundation.
be purchased, at www.sisters
fob.com/aboutthefestival.
Stafford is the founding
director of the Northwest
Writing Institute at Lewis &
Clark College, where he has
taught writing since 1979.
He has also taught writing
in dozens of schools and
community centers, and in
Scotland, Italy, and Bhutan.
He is the author of a
dozen books of poetry
and prose, including <The
Muses Among Us: Eloquent
Listening and Other Pleasures
of the Writer9s Craft= and <A
Thousand Friends of Rain:
New & Selected Poems.= His
more recent works include
<100 Tricks Every Boy
Can Do: How My Brother
Disappeared,= and <Wind on
the Waves: Stories from the
Oregon Coast.=
Stafford was named
Oregon9s ninth poet laure-
ate by Governor Kate Brown
in May 2018, a position his
father, William Stafford, also
held. He travels the state in
his two-year term to share the
power of poetry to help com-
munities become more curi-
ous about their own stories,
more emotionally open, and
better prepared to exercise
freedom in speech to heal
divisions.
He credits his high school
English teachers, Mrs.
Pittman and Miss Scholastica
Murty, as well as his family,
and <rivers and forests and
students and wise strangers
of all kinds,= with getting
him started writing and now
he <can9t stop.=
Stafford9s own description
of who he is goes like this:
<Kim, named by his
mother after the Kipling novel
she was reading in the hospi-
tal where he was born, was
later called Kimney Pie as
he toddled, and later Buffalo
Kim by his father, because
A Partnership
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of his curly hair, and much
later 8Dr. Stafford9 due to a
misguided detour through the
hallowed hells of academe,
and is now known simply as
8that guy who teaches writing
at the Grad School,9 or 8that
guy who9s always writing in
the back corner at Starbucks
at 5 a.m.,9 or 8that guy, you
know that guy who gets con-
fused for his father because
they both taught at Lewis &
Clark like 4 forever?9
<But secretly, actually,
if you want to understand,
he9s the kid of about 10 dis-
guised as a professor, the kid
who would rather climb a
tree than read a book, who9s
so bonded to his brother you
could hit two birds with one
stone, who is down some-
where in that ravine building
a tiny fire of hemlock twigs
and watching the flame climb
through the architecture of
his thought&.=
Stafford poetically
describes a book as being
<friendly to the hand in a
way the Internet, for all its
PHOTO PROVIDED
Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet
laureate, will be featured at the
Sisters Festival of Books.
conveniences, can9t touch.
A book has a little door you
open to a realm of wonders,
then you close it, but the
story keeps talking to your
mind. You can hand this
pleasure to a friend. You can
leave a book by your bed as
a personal reward for a hard
day. You can forget a particu-
lar book for years and then be
reunited for an affectionate
reunion.=
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