Kim Stafford, Director
Northwest Writing Institute & William Stafford Center
Lewis & Clark College, MSC 100 / 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. / Portland, Oregon 97219
(503-768-6163 / fax 503-768-6165 / krs@lclark.edu)
Vita
Administrative Experience:
Founding Director, The Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, 1986-present;
William Stafford Center, 2004-present.
Literary Executor, The Estate of William Stafford, 1993-present.
Director, Oregon Folk Arts Program, 1988-93.
Teaching Experience
Daily Writing in the Spirit of William Stafford; The Muses Among Us; Writing Art; Writing Your Culture; Songwriting; Northwest Folklore; Foxfire Workshop; Structure and Development of the English Language; Basic Inquiry; Oregon Writing Project; Lyrical Prose; The Imaginative Writing Seminar; Personal Voice in Professional Writing, and other courses (Lewis & Clark College, 1979-present).
Aesthetics and Expression; Letterpress Printing (Oregon College of Art & Craft, 1989-90).
Literature and Thinking (Bard College, 1986-89)
Foxfire Workshop (University of Idaho, 1983-85).
Chaucer; Middle English Dialects; Composition (University of California/Davis, 1983-84).
Composition; British Literature (Idaho State University, 1982-83)
Writing workshops at the Fishtrap Writers Gathering, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, and other writing centers, 1987-present.
Typography & Letterpress Printing (Pacific Northwest College of Art, 1985-86).
The World of the Book (Pacific Lutheran University, 1978-83).
Shakespeare; Chaucer (University of Oregon, 1973).
Education
1979 Ph.D., University of Oregon, emphasis in medieval English literature, with a dissertation: “The Middle English Pearl and the Art of Translation.”
1971 B.A., 1973 M.A. in English, University of Oregon, with courses in architecture, ceramics, music, Italian and Spanish language, photography, and dance performance.
Publications
A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon U. Press, rpt. 2005).
Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace & War. Edited by Kim Stafford (Milkweed Editions, 2003).
The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft (The University of Georgia Press, 2003).
Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (Graywolf Press, 2002).
Oregon Pilgrimage in Green (Knight Library Press, 2000)
Wheel Made of Wind (CD of original songs; Little Infinities, 1997)
Spirit Land (collaboration with Gary Nabhan; limited edition book, illus. by Margaret Prentice, printing by John Risseeuw, 1996)
Apple Bough Soliloquy (illus. Susan Lowdermilk; lone goose press, 1995)
We Got Here Together (illus. Debra Frasier; Harcourt Brace, 1994)
Wind on the Waves (with photographs by Ray Atkeson; Graphic Arts, 1992)
Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West (illus. Hannah Hinchman; Confluence Press, 1991)
Entering the Grove (with photographs by Gary Braasch; Peregrine Smith, 1990)
Places & Stories (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1987)
Having Everything Right: Essays of Place (Confluence Press, 1986; Viking-Penguin, 1987; Japanese translation, Editions Papyrus, 1994; rpt. Sasquatch Books, 1997)
Essays, reviews, poems, and stories in The Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Harper’s Magazine, Outside Magazine, Kenyon Review, The Hudson Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Western American Literature, Clearwater Journal, The Sun, The Writer’s Almanac, and other publications.
Poetry in Public Art & Regional Life
Oregon State Library (collaboration with Margot Thompson: a poem “Birds Fly Upward Singing,” in typographic and Braille settings on a cast bronze bas relief for the Talking Book and Braille Services Division lobby, 2000).
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland, Oregon (collaboration with Margot Thompson:
a poem “Naknuwisha,” calligraphed in seven languages for permanent display in the building lobby, the surgery quiet room, and the pediatric ICU waiting room, 1998).Oregon Zoo, Portland, Oregon (poems on stone for Stellar Cove, 2000).
Woodstock Branch Library, Portland, Oregon (collaboration with Margot Thompson: a welcoming poem “Open this Door of All Doors,” etched in stainless steel at the building entrance, with lines from the poem translated into six languages and etched on the north and west exterior facades of the building, 2000).
West Side Light Rail Project, Washington County, Oregon (collaboration with Nanda D’Agostino and John Laursen: text for threshold, Orenco Station, 1998).
U.S. Forest Service (lyrical narration for a video on wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge, “Wildflower Cousins in Grandmother’s House,” 1994).
Methow River Foundation, Twisp, Washington (consultant for installation of seven poetry road signs along the North Cascades Highway, texts by William Stafford, 1994).
Composing and performing poems for events sponsored by the Governor (Oregon Arts & Culture Summit), Pacific Northwest College of Art (dedication of new campus), Oregon College of Art & Craft (commencement), Thousand Friends of Oregon (Senate Bill 100 anniversary), Regional Arts & Culture Council (welcome of new director), Multnomah County Library (Gala), National Association of State Arts Agencies (convention), Sitka Center for Art & Ecology (annual art show), Oregon Legislature (session opening), Willamette Riverkeepers (conference), Nike Masters World Games (official closing), Oregon Public Broadcasting (“Oregon Considered”), and other organizations and events.
Professional Experience
Member, Oregon Governor’s Task Force on Arts & Culture, 1999-2000.
Co-Founder, Fishtrap Writers Gathering, an annual conference in northeast Oregon, 1987.
Visiting Writer in dozens of rural schools throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker/Performer on behalf of the Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Western States Arts Federation, Sierra
Storytelling Festival, Library of Congress, American International School/Vienna, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service, Portland General Electric, Northwest Natural, National Association of State Arts Agencies, and other organizations.
Coordinator for workshops involving writers, young writers, and teachers of writing at Lewis & Clark College; University of Alaska/Kuskokwin; University of New Orleans; Pacific Lutheran University; Southern Oregon College; Teton Science School; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and other schools.
Member of the Forgotten Language Poetry Tours sponsored by the Orion Society in nine states, and in Michoacán, Mexico, 1994-present.
Writer of a play for the Haven Project, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
Narrator for a radio program about traditional artists, Oregon Folklife Program, 2000.
Editor and Narrator for “Rural Voices Radio,” a thirteen-CD set of recordings for public radio broadcast featuring original poetry read by rural students and teachers, 2000-02.
Writer/Narrator for a video about Cowboy Poetry; Odyssey Productions, 1997.
Consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts (grant selection panels 1987, 1988, 1993); Oregon Arts Commission; Oregon Coast Council for the Arts; Western States Arts Foundation; Sitka Center for Art & Ecology; Literary Arts.
Associate (Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, 1986-89)
Oral Historian: “Sixty Archived Interviews in Northwest History” (Siuslaw Pioneer Museum, Florence, Oregon, 1975-76).
Awards
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, for Early Morning (2003); for Having Everything Right (1987).
Oregon Governor’s Arts Award (1998).
Grants for community arts programs from the National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon State Library, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Council for the Humanities, and other agencies.
McKnight Fellowship to be Writer in Residence at The Loft, Minneapolis, Spring 1995.
Citation for Excellence, Western States Book Award (1986, for Having Everything Right).
Public Service Award, World Affairs Council (1993).
Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Oregon (1992).
NEA Creative Writing Fellowships (1976 & 1984).
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created by: Kim Stafford
updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 14:37