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8 TI he ClAckAMAs P rínt Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Accomplished poet to share his craft at Gregory Forum JEREMY STALLWOOD Feature Editor Kim Robert Stafford, Director of the Northwest Writing Insti tute at Lewis and Clark College, will give a poetry reading to day at noon in the Gregory Fo rum. Stafford passed through Or egon, Iowa, Indiana, California and Alaska, as he grew up while his parents taught and traveled through the west. Later, he worked at various times as an oral historian, let terpress printer, editor, photog rapher, teacher and visiting writer throughout the Pacific Northwest. Stafford has taught at Lewis and Clark since 1979, where he teaches courses in ethno- graphic and environmental writing and directs the Imagi native Writing Seminar, in ad dition to working with the Northwest Writing Institute, which coordinates graduate campus courses and off-cam pus projects in writing and re gional culture. He has taught in the past at colleges in New York, California, Idaho, Wash ington and Oregon. Stafford has been publishing his own work since the late seventies. In addition to his books, he has published a host of articles, poems, reviews, stories and essays in a wide variety of literary journals. His newest collection, A Thousand Friends of Rain: New and Se lected Poems 1976-1998 (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), includes a wide spec trum of Stafford’s work. Matthew Trump, an ex-stu dent of Stafford’s, in a review calls him “a great soul of the Northwest. His insights into the human condition have left an ever-burgeoning imprint on me.” Stafford has received two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book, Hav ing Everything Right: Essays of Place (Sasquatch Books), won a Western States Book Award in 1986. Having Every thing Right is a collection of essays on the history, folklore and physical beauty of the Pa cific Northwest. Stafford will read from his new book, A Thousand Friends of Rain, as well as pieces from his multiple other publications. A Stafford poem interpreted STEF SMITH StaffWriter Circling constellations declination beckoning, stare, an ancestor flock re-living each night A globe of dew shows the Early Riser from A Gypsy's History of the World (Copper Canyon Press) by KIM R. STAFFORD th e long circuit, an old one plunging in a The home-map glimmers in a swallow’s eye, With a leaf for shade each fist of feathers must rest In the rush of its own wind to rise at dusk, the map of eager mirror hunting the the flyway dips north star. whole sky When the beak sips it. bla%e of feathers. STAFFORD this dark world toward earth, dawn star’s in its eye. “Early Riser” portrays a bird’s bird’s guiding light to navigate flying patterns at dusk. Much his travels through the dark. of the poem’s imagery touches The constellations are his an on reflection, as with the “map cestors’ souls guiding him to of this dark world in its eye,” safety. In this poem, Stafford and the hour of darkness that is describing the relationship comes before the light of between the Earth and the dawn. The North Star is this bird. CLR to make appearance at AWP conference Spring ‘99 issue of the CLR is now available at the college bookstore for $6. JEREMY STALLWOOD Feature Editor The Spring issue of the Clacka mas Literary Review (CLR) will make its annual appearance at the Associated Writing Program con ference in Albany, New York rep resented by its editors Tim Schell and Jeff Knorr, creative writing instructors (fiction and poetry, respectively) at Clackamas. According to Knorr, the con ference will be held at the Omni Albany Hotel, April 14-18. They will be presenting the CLR in the Book Exhibit Hall along with other publications from around the country. In addition, Schell and Knorr will be a part of a panel discus sion which will examine two-year creative writing programs, how they are defined and how to bet ter their productivity. The first time the CLR made an Synesthesia seeks submissions All writers are encouraged to submit their work for publication JEREMY STALLWOOD Feature Editor The Synesthesia, a literary journal of on-campus fiction, poetry and non-fiction, is pre paring its 1999 issue. For an opportunity to be published in this national award-winning magazine follow the guidelines below: Students are welcome to en ter fiction, poetry and non-fic tion. Include on the first page of the entry your Social Secu rity Number and title only. On a separate cover sheet, include your name, Social Security Number, title and phone num ber. Also, include a copy of the appearance at the AWP conference was in Washington, D.C., in the Spring of ‘97, the year of its debut issue. That issue, due in part to its successful appearance at the conference, won the Best New Magazine of 1997 award from the Community College's Humanities Association. Clackamas Federal Credit Union fttteke StvrMiitip JlaA JU Now Available ! ! ! Entry CoverSheet Student Loans Federally Insured Tide SSN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx entry on a 3.5” disk. Deadline for submissions is More Advantages of Membership... 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