Describes the cultures of the Asian immigrants and looks at how they have adapted to life in the United States

Becoming Americans: Asian Sojourners, Immigrants and Refugees in the Western United States

Teen & Young Adult

Knoll, Tricia

Education & Reference

Coast To Coast Books

Tricia concentrates on the tragic, happy, and often noble stories of individual people who have come from East Asia to America, particularly to the western states, where most of them have always lived and discrimination against them in earlier years was most severe....It is a moving story Ms. Knoll tells and one that is becoming a significant, integral part of the history of the American people.

Becoming Americans

Wild Apples are hard fruits left in abandoned orchards. Like rock walls, a symbol of New England where poet Tricia Knoll found a home in the Vermont woods just before the pandemic locked down. She begins the book with downsizing to make her move. Then her poems tell of both loneliness and wonder at the birth of grandsons who live just down the road and the wildlife that moves through her five acres of land.

Wild Apples: poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Fernwood Press

New Bridges is an anthology of haiku and tanka by The Portland Haiku Group, made in memory of three haiku poets: Johnny Baranski (1948-2018), Thomas Martin (1944-2018), and Lorraine Ellis Harr (1912-2006). This anthology is dedicated to Johnny Baranski and features 3-line haiku, 2-line haiku, 1-line haiku, and tanka by 17 poets in The Portland Haiku Group with a foreword by Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers. Edited by Jacob Salzer. In a world where it seems more walls are being built around us, it is our hope that this anthology will encourage people to build more friendships, to create a better world for now and our future generations.

New Bridges: a haiku anthology

Martin, Thomas

Salzer, Jacob

Ankenbrock, Ellen

Baker-Gard, Shelley

Baranski, Johnny

Beach, Clayton

Jambor, Lynne

MacCulloch, Jone Rush

Norman, Nancy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who grew up in a suburb of Chicago and earned degrees in literature from Stanford University and Yale University. This collection of poems records how her ancestry, education, early childhood and work experiences changed her understanding over many decades of the impact of white privilege on her understanding of race relations. Her poetry appears in dozens of journals and anthologies. This book joins her other published poetry collections Urban Wild, Ocean's Laughter, and Broadfork Farm which explore ecological relationships in Oregon and Washington.

How I Learned to Be White

Antrim House

One Bent Twig

FutureCycle Press

In a letter-poem to her first husband, who's having sex-change surgery, Tricia Knoll writes, "You are wise to join us. We need all the smart ones we can assemble." Knoll might well chair that assembly herself; but the poet's piercing intelligence is enhanced in this superb collection by wryness, compassion, and often enough, humor. Precise and rangy at once, she seems to strike the right note no matter what she considers, her work aptly served by her uncanny eye for exact and eloquent detail.-Sydney Lea, Poet Laureate of Vermont (2011-2015)The poems in Tricia Knoll's Checkered Mates-by turns tender, raw, and truthful-mark a departure from her usual work. Though her lifelong intimacy with the natural world remains omnipresent in this volume as well, she more often turns her incisive gaze toward humans and her own past relationships. Yet no matter the subject, the "honest harvest" of these poems is always their authentic unfolding so that we emerge from each poem, and the book as a whole, more aware of our own mortality, ready to "break open / the way love does."-James Crews, Editor of How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude & HopeTricia Knoll is an original, her slant on life curious, generous, cheeky, and always surprising as she "backtrack s] matrimonial trails" and "embrace s] bare facts," including the "kindness of getting old." Whether standing on a dike in New Orleans, lifting weights with a friend, or waiting in the airport for an ex-husband who has undergone gender-affirming surgery, she remains alert to eros, compassion, and the play of metaphor. For all the life in her narratives, her rhythms and sounds are equal to them-"Low-slung, the lunar face is acned styrofoam," or "A soft wind dries the sweat of climb"-as she moves through poems with the tenacity of a chess player. Mate. -Rebecca Starks, Author of Time Is Always Now

Checkered Mates

Kelsay Books

Horses and humans go back in time with each other thousands of years. A young girl's love for horses or a particular horse is the stuff of legends, bestselling novels, and movies. In Let's Hear It for the Horses, Tricia Knoll's poetry explores her lifelong fascination with these strong and sometimes symbolic creatures and shares stories and memories of her best rides.\n"If you know your totem animal is Horse, you'll see these gentle giants everywhere-in the history of war, on gas-station calendars, haunting memories of harvest, a father's fall, and your own hand's memory of dusty withers. These poems will take you into a life enhanced by horses, as every life should be by something friendly but not defeated." 
-Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar, Oregon Poet Laureate Emeritus\n"Knoll takes the reader close to real and imagined horses-close enough to feel the tickle of their whiskers or notice the green spit on their lips....You don't have to know horses to love these poems; they can serve as a generous introduction to the joy and sadness that canters in the air beside them." 
-Judith Barrington, author of Long Love: New & Selected Poems, 1985-2017

Let's Hear It for the Horses

Poetry Box

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