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Around Oregon<br />
Passage<br />
from a<br />
onprofit<br />
These Oregon literary groups do<br />
more than just put ink to paper.<br />
Fishtrap<br />
Enterprise | fishtrap.org<br />
At the foot of the Wallowa Mountains, Fishtrap offers<br />
writers the opportunity to connect, discuss contemporary<br />
issues and revitalize their writing. There's also a<br />
local lecture series, a community read and a writerin-residence<br />
program for youth and adults.<br />
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology<br />
Neskowin | sitkacenter.org<br />
With a small campus situated at the edge of a<br />
Nature Conservancy on the Coast, this space nurtures<br />
waves of creativity with a workshop, residency<br />
programs, art, writing, science and music.<br />
The Nature of Words<br />
Bend | thenatureofwords.org<br />
NOW provides creative writing instruction for kids<br />
and adults, offers two creative writing competitions,<br />
and produces an annual literary festival the<br />
first week of ovember.<br />
The Wordstock Festival<br />
Portland | wordstockfestival.com<br />
The Northwest’s signature celebration of readers and writers, Wordstock<br />
is a multi-day collection of storytelling events and collaboration<br />
that brings together 15,000 visitors, novelists, poets, artists, filmmakers,<br />
students, readers, and exhibitors to Portland. Wordstock partners with<br />
many literary organizations, and culminates with a two-day festival at<br />
the Oregon Convention Center.<br />
Write Around Portland<br />
Portland | writearound.org<br />
Changing lives through writing, the organization<br />
holds free creative writing workshops in shelters, senior<br />
centers, schools, hospitals, prisons, treatment<br />
facilities and other agencies. Journals, pens, bus<br />
tickets, snacks and childcare are provided.<br />
Writers on the Edge<br />
Newport | writersontheedge.org<br />
incoln Countys preeminent nonprofit literary organization<br />
is best known for its Nye Beach Writers’<br />
Series, featuring visiting authors in all genres, followed<br />
by open mic for writers of all ages.<br />
IN<br />
BOOK<br />
Review<br />
Even his titles are wake-up calls. Pay attention, Oregon Poet Laureate William Stafford tells us<br />
again and again, demanding we stop what we’re doing to bear witness as he did every morning<br />
when he sat down in the dark, “adventuring in the language.” (Writing the Australian Crawl).<br />
For it is important that awake people be awake ... lest the parade of our<br />
mutual life get lost in the dark. - From A Ritual to Read To Each Other<br />
Stafford died in 1993. He published more than sixty books of poetry, including some<br />
of his more popular works, The Darkness Around Us Is Deep and Learning to Live in the<br />
World: Earth Poems. Celebrations of his upcoming hundredth birthday have already begun<br />
as communities throughout the acific orthwest revisit poems about his childhood<br />
in ansas, his years in a conscientious obector camp in California and his attention to<br />
the voices of the land and his “Home State,” Oregon.<br />
2 <strong>1859</strong> oregon's mAgAzine SEPT OCT <strong>2012</strong><br />
Reviewed by Claudia Hinz<br />
“You Reading This, Be Ready”<br />
Sometimes whole sides of the world<br />
lean against where you live.<br />
Just being there is a career.<br />
And the danger is in forgetting<br />
that sometime you might go away.<br />
- William Stafford, Home State
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