Kim Stafford

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Kim Stafford is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland, Oregon. He received a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon. Since 1979, he has taught writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He has also taught courses at Willamette University in Salem, at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, at the Fishtrap Writers Gathering, and private workshops in Oregon and Italy. He is the founding director and artist-in-residence at the Northwest Writing Institute. He is the son of poet William Stafford.

His books include :

A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems
Oregon Pilgrimage in Green
Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West
Wind on the Waves
We Got Here Together
Entering the Grove
A Gypsy's History of the World
Places & Stories
Having Everything Right: Essays of Place
The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft
Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford
Wheel Made of Wind (a CD of original songs)

Kim Stafford also served as editor or contributor for several books by William Stafford:

Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in Wartime (Introduction by Kim Stafford)
Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War (Introduction by Kim Stafford)
Even in Quiet Places (Afterword by Kim Stafford)

He was also a contributor to the Multnomah County project When You Were 15, in which

adults from our community share their stories about how an adult made a difference to them when they were fifteen. Several stories from today’s young people prove that they, too, need caring adults. These real life stories show how even a small act of encouragement can make a big difference in a teen’s life.^[1]

His work is featured at the Orenco Station on the Rings of Memory Plaza and the Witness Tree Rest.