LINKS
FRIENDS OF WILLIAM STAFFORD
A nonprofit group promoting literature and poetry through the writing,
spirit and example of William Stafford (1914-1993), past poet laureate
of Oregon: http://www.williamstafford.org/
CENTRUM
An arts center in Port Townsend, Wash., sponsoring workshops, festivals
and creative residencies: http://www.centrum.org/
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE PROGRAM FOR WRITERS
The original – and, for my money, the best – low-residency
MFA program in creative writing, based in Asheville, N.C.: http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~mfa/
FINISHING LINE PRESS
Kentucky-based publisher of chapbooks, including Another Way to Begin,
by Don Colburn, winner of the 2005 Finishing Line Press Prize in poetry: http://finishinglinepress.com/
CIDER PRESS REVEW
Pennsylvania-based publisher of a yearly literary magazine and As If
Gravity Were a Theory, by Don Colburn, winner of the 2005 Cider
Press Review Book Award:
http://www.ciderpressreview.com/
PLOUGHSHARES
A literary journal based at Emerson College, with archives and links to
contributors and their work: http://www.pshares.org/authors/
POETRY NORTHWEST
An historic literary magazine, long based in Seattle, reborn in 2006
in Portland: http://www.poetrynw.org
OREGON LITERARY
REVIEW
An online collection of poetry, art, music and hypermedia, edited by Charles
Deemer, Primus St. John et al: http://www.oregonlitrev.org/v1n2/OregonLiteraryReview.htm
CHAPTERS: A LITERARY BOOKSTORE
A force for good books in the nation’s capital and the best poetry
collection around, an independent bookstore struggling heroically
to make it in a chained world: www.chaptersliterary.com
BIRTH TO SIX: EARLY LITERACY
Multnomah County (Portland, OR) Library’s award-winning site to
boost reading among youngsters, with links to Book Lists and Resources: http://www.multcolib.org/birthtosix/
ROB GREENWAY’S IRISH
FLUTE AND PENNYWHISTLE PAGES:
A terrific site for anyone interested in Irish music, particularly on
the flute and pennywhistle, by Rob Greenway, a standout flute player
and teacher based in the Washington, D.C, area.: http://www.geocities.com/feadanach