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They recognize humanity's ambivalent relationship with the region and are witnesses to the effects of environmental destruction and unchecked urbanization. Their poetry often reveals a spiritual connection to the Native American and Asian cultures. The associations with the environment and other cultures, however, are more contemplative or subconscious, so there is not, as one might expect, a . Each poet, including the Native American and Asian American, has his or her own style and distinctive voice. Links to individual web sites are highlighted. The list also includes those who have died. The listing continues to expand as we compile the information. Click on letter corresponding to last name: ABCD . Thanks to the National Highway Act and other progressive developments of the 1. Mills College and the University of Michigan. In her twenties, she lived in Paris, Seattle, and Washington, D. C., where she made a living as a freelance editor and writer for New Republic Books, the National Endowment, and the National Geographic Society. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in many small magazines and newspapers, including West Branch, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rosebud, Eclipse, Nimrod, Poetry Flash and elsewhere. The drama of family life informs her earlier work, The Book of Gretel, published in 2. Finishing Line Press. Early California is the subject of Swimming the Eel, published by David Robert Books in 2. Her latest book, Fracas & Asylum, is just out from David Robert Books, 2. Visit her website at www. Alicia Jo Rabins. A poet, composer, performer, and Torah scholar. Her manuscript, Divinity School, won the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and is forthcoming from APR/Copper Canyon in September 2. Her poems appear in the Boston Review, 6. As a musician, Alicia tours internationally with her band, Girls in Trouble—an indie- folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women—with whom she has released three albums. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, her one- woman chamber- rock opera about the intersection of spirituality and finance, was named one of Portland’s five best theater performances of 2. Willamette Week. Alicia lives in Portland with her husband and their two small children. Is universally regarded as the most important scholar of Native American folklore in Oregon, and one of the most important in the nation. He was raised on his family's homestead near Madras, Oregon. He is the author or editor of six books, including Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country, which was voted by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission as one of the 1. Oregon of the past 2. His book, New Era, covers, in a series of essays, the homesteaders of his native central Oregon. An author of both non- fiction and fiction, he has also written essays on Shakespeare, modern poetry, American Indian literature and plays. Ramsey is a frequent presenter at writing workshops and seminars. He has published six books with the U. His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Quarterly Review, and other magazines. His four books of poems have been published internationally. His newest book, The Piper of Cloone: Father Keegan and the Early Gaelic Revival, was published in 2. He lives on the family homestead with his wife, Dorothy. She graduated from Berkeley High in 1. Stage struck in her teens, she won the role of St. Joan in The Lark at the University of San Francisco in a city- wide competition (1. As an undergraduate at Berkeley and a student of Thom Gunn's, she published her first poems in Poetry (1. Third Prize in the anthology The Best Poems of 1. After living in Greenwich Village, she returned to Berkeley and, with the guitarist John Stauber, opened the Jabberwock, a cabaret. In 1. 96. 9, she was awarded a Wallace Stegner fellowship to Stanford, where she was later named Jones Lecturer in Poetry Writing. The Coast Starlight (David Robert Books, 2. Her first book of poems was 1. Different Ways of Playing Solitaire and Other Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1. Her other poetry collections include. The Orpheus Sedan (Copper Canyon, 1. Drop Dead Beautiful (Wood Works, 1. True Love (Wood Works, 2. Her poetry also appears in A Century of Poetry, a new anthology from Poetry magazine celebrating 1. Chicago University Press, 2. The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley published two art books of selections from her correspondence with the poet Thom Gunn. She is the Poetry Editor of Common Knowledge, an interdisciplinary journal from Duke University Press. Her poetry and essays have appeared in many magazines, including The Southern Review, Tri. Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, and PN Review (England), and, most recently, in the anthology Berkeley Daze: Berkeley poets of the 1. She taught for over twenty years at Cornish College of the Arts and in the University of Washington Extension Writers' Certificate Program. In 2. 00. 5- 7, she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts grant in Poetry. She lives in Seattle with her husband Joe Edwards.(1. A novelist, science fiction writer and poet, Bill Ransom was born in Puyallup, Washington . From 1. 96. 5 to 1. Ransom worked on building and repairing military and commercial jet engines. He has worked as a firefighter and advanced EMT. He studied American Minority Literature and Old and Middle English at the University of Nevada, Reno, then began a pilot project with the Poetry in the Schools program in Washington state. He founded and directed the popular Port Townsend Writers Conference and appeared in two films: An Officer and a Gentleman and The Caine Mutiny Court- Martial (CBS). Ransom’s latest poetry collection, The Woman and the War Baby, was released in October 2. Blue Begonia Press. His novel Jaguar was #1 for Alexandria Digital Literature in 2. Wildside Press in April 2. Far Cry Press published his limited edition poetry chapbook, Sleight of Hand, in July, 2. Bill Ransom’s first poetry collection , Finding True North & Critter, published in 1. Copper Canyon Press, was nominated for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer in 1. Learning the Ropes (Utah State University Press, 1. Wordman Production Company. A CD of his poetry collection, War Baby, is also available from Wordman Production Company. Ransom’s recent work, seen in Puerto del Sol, Spillway and Tendril, is heavily invested with his experience as an advanced life- support EMT and firefighter in Washington and Latin America. He is a long- time member of the PEN Freedom to Write Committee, whose recent efforts helped to affect the release of imprisoned writers in China and Cuba. Bill Ransom lives in western Washington and teaches creative writing for The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Check his web site for more information www. Dan Raphael. Born in Pittsburgh. Has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1. Bellingham). Has a BA in English from Cornell, where he worked with Robert Morgan, A. R. Ammons and James Bertolino, an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State, and an MA in literature at Western Washington University. Among Dan’s eighteen published collections are The State I’m In, Impulse & Warp: The Selected 2. Century Poems includes work from his first 1. Breath Test (Nine Muses), Showing Light a Good Time (Jazz Police), Molecular Jam (Jazz Police), isnt how we got here (published under his Unnum imprint), and Bop Grit Storm Caf. His poems have appeared in nearly 3. Raven Chronicles, Exquisite Corpse, Caliban, Heaven Bone, Urvox, Otoliths, Pemmican, Knock Journal, Central Park, Tinfish, Skidrow Penthouse, Rattapallax, Raft, and Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry. Dan is known for the energy, humor and linguistic range of his performances. He is the publisher of 2. Books—2. 6 chapbooks of 2. Oregon and Washington poets—after 1. NRG. In addition, he has published Playing with a Full Deck, an anthology of 2. Lives with his wife Melba and son Orion in Portland, and a job with the Oregon DMV. For several years Dan has organized monthly readings at a downtown bookstore. Gauhar Raza (8/1. An Indian scientist by profession, and a leading . He was also the honorary director of Jahangirabad Media Institute. Gauhar Raza's poetry collection . In his most famous poem . He also wrote lyrics for a Hindi film Say Salaam Indiareleased in 2. Philip Red Eagle (1. The co- founder of Raven Chronicles, Philip writes poetry, fiction and essays. He was born in Tacoma, Washington and educated at the University of Washington. Visit the web site of this award- winning and influential poet, writer, essayist, visual artist, and journalist at www. Red Pine (1. 94. 3- )Bill Porter was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Idaho. He translates Chinese texts under the name Red Pine. He has a degree in anthropology from University of California, Santa Barbara and did graduate studies in Chinese language and anthropology at Columbia University, but then dropped out in 1. Fo Kwang Shan Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. He lived in Asia for 2. US in 1. 99. 3. He lives in Port Townsend, WA. His publications include: Lao- txu’s Taoteching: Translated by Red Pine with selected commentaries from the past 2. Copper Canyon Press, 2. Winner of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China (author) Counterpoint, 2. The Heart Sutra: the Womb of Buddhas. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2. Copper Canyon Press, 2. Copper Canyon Press, 2. Wisdom Publications, 1. Empty Bowl, 1. 98. North Point Press, 1. Copper Canyon Press, 1.
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