Poetry. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the winner of two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Awards, Paulann Petersen has been on the faculty for the Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and has given workshops for Oregon Writers Workshop, Oregon State Poetry Association, and Mountain Writers Series. Madeline DeFrees says, "After the erotic poems of The Wild Awake, and the Turkish poems of Blood Silk, Paulann Petersen gives us [in] A BRIDE OF NARROW ESCAPE...stunning poems, intimate and deeply tender." And Lawson Inada says, "She ventures into the recesses of memory, explores the complexity of nature, and human nature...here is poetry of revelation and wonder." Oregon Literary Arts has chosen Paulann Peterson to receive The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for her work for the Friends of William Stafford. Paulann is also a finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, a part of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards

A Bride of Narrow Escape

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Petersen, Paulann

Poetry

Cloudbank Books

Poetry. Second Edition. Charles Goodrich's writing earned fellowships from Fishtrap, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the 2001 Walt Morey fellowship from Literary Arts. Garrison Keillor has read his poems on National Public Radio. Charles currently works for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University.

Insects of South Corvallis

Goodrich, Charles

Oregon Book Award-winning poet Henry Hughes journeys with master artist Paul Gentry to explore Oregon and the state of America. These poems and photos create a conversations that is moving, thoughtful, politically engaging and refreshingly playful.

Shutter Lines

Henry Hughes

Paul Gentry

Reviewing Henry Hughes collection, Moist Meridian, Robert Pinsky praised the alertness, generosity, irony and candor of poems that were endlessly curious about relationships . . . abiding, fearful, but engaging mystery. That mystery is intensified in Bunch of Animals where we experience black dragon fish at a thousand fathoms, eels tunneling through soft mud, earwigs wriggling out of shingles, swans winging high above, laboratory monkeys escaping cages, and cats slinking into our dreams. With deep scientific and artistic imagining, these poems allow us to explore, reconsider, and celebrate the intimacies and distances of our bestial bonds.

Bunch of Animals

Amorak Huey's Seducing the Asparagus Queen won the 2018 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books. Praise for this book include Catie Rosemurgy's comment: "Very early in this book, I gave up and stopped underlining. All of the lines in these poems are my favorite lines. It breaks my heart a little to find out what happens in the next sentence, and that's exactly what I come to poetry for." Another comment by Bob Hicok echoes this sentiment with words that reflect on these lines: "It's human, this need to find order where none exists. / Fire does not have this problem." "The truth, weirdness and economy of that thought give you a sense of the surprise you're in for with Amorak Huey's poems, which are bright and funny and motored in this book by a debate between the part of him that hopes we're going to be OK and the part that worries we're going over a cliff." Huey is an associate professor of writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Seducing the Asparagus Queen

Amorak Huey

Starting with a Charles Wright quote that emphasizes taking a hard look at one's surroundings, poems in Timothy Geiger s Weatherbox look deep into both the rush of everyday experience, and the ruins of memory. From the "hammered grace/ of a goldfinch mid-air" to "the bare foot-trails/ furrowed beneath/ the abandoned swingset" the imagery and imagination in these poems become prayers, or stories, or meditations, striving for the hardest answers from the forces that drive our common humanity.

Weatherbox

Timothy Geiger

Poetry written by Jane Craven. Winner of the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize given annually by Cloudbank Books.

My Bright Last Country

Jane Craven

Product Description “Every line in John Kooistra’s poetry is one step deeper―not just into the landscape of the world, but also of the mind.Sure-footed, but open to surprise, linked not just to place, but the connections between places, these poems do not hesitate to inspect a small track in the snow or to stand up straight to take hold of the sudden and miraculous, the past and the present, the deep breathing of ideas, and the persuasion of wilderness. Kooistra, in his poems, always finds those crucial moments when the mind needs to pay attention, but he also knows when to shut up and let the world talk: “The sense in all this / I now make a mystery / by asking.” ―Dan Bourne Review “John Kooistra's wondrous poems have always radiated deepest light and mystery. They are fortifying in the ways of all essential presences. I love their radiant quietude.” --Naomi Shihab Nye"The subjects in Long Voyage Gathering Light are real, humane, and presented with compelling intelligence that belies their apparent simplicity, and they take us to places their subjects do not predict. It is refreshing to see such thinking arising naturally from honest and deep consideration and without any force of will or pretension, thinking that takes up nonetheless the major themes of our lives. The craft is sure and authentic; the voice is genuine and finds meaning." --Christopher Buckley About the Author As well as a philosophy professor and writer, John Kooistra was a commercial fisherman in Alaska who knew how to repair the engine on his boat and keep himself alive. Those same qualities show up in his poems: the ability to take apart and put together small parts into something big and powerful for the long voyage.

Long Voyage Gathering Light

John Kooistra

Winner of the 2023 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize, Constellation is the 8th book of poems by H.L. Hix. Constellation is poetry on a larger scale than we are used to, an extraordinary combination of memory and meditation, precise and personal, ritualistic, soaring, by turns, with eloquence, erudition, candor. In both rich and allusive verse, and prose with poetic charge, the work draws you in and won't let you forget the vivid motifs and variations that repeat as in an oratorio, often playful, in the idioms of today, while touching the timeless and magnificent.	 -Robert Morgan, author of Dark Territory

Constellation

H.L. Hix

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