Kim Stafford

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Kim Stafford is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland, Oregon. Stafford received a B.A. in 1971, an M.A. in English in 1973 and a Ph.D. in medieval literature in 1979 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 and 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.