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Articles by Kim Stafford
The Food of Belonging
In our old neighborhood on the east bench of Ogden, a city of about 87,000 nestled against the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains in northern Utah, nearly everyone we knew had a small garden. Pam, one street over from us, grew row after row of rhubarb. She’d call me each spring and tell me to come on over with some scissors and a big bag. Then I’d make rhubarb crumble and take her some. The crumble was my grandma’s recipe, and since Pam was an older woman, it made sense that she grew it.
A Proclamation for Peace in Many Languages, by Kim Stafford, compiled by Allison deFreese
This project grew from a conversation with Kim Stafford during the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters conference, “Words = A Pathway to Peace.” We decided to send a poem for peace around the planet by translating the former Oregon Poet Laureate’s “A Proclamation for Peace” into diverse world languages.
The Backward Prompt: Using Great First Lines from Literature to Invent Your Own Way Forward
The following article was originally published in print by Teachers & Writers Magazine. by Kim Stafford As Donald Graves once said, if you want students to write literature, read them beautiful things and simply ask them to write. They will make the connections and write under the spell of what they have heard.
Two Camels - Terrain.org
Across centuries, cultural, ethnic, religious, and political divides, sexual violence has been part of war. World War II is no exception. When we deny the story, the story defines us. When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending. – Brené Brown Upper Swabia spreads like a quilt of meadows, fields, and woods across a triangle of southern Germany; within it, the village of Otterswang would be lost if country lanes were not stitching it to other clumps of farms.
Equinox: Greta in Poland
Because they were rich and clever, all the ambassadors designed an echo chamber of glass and platitudes, and took turns denying the future. And because they were old, only the next few years mattered, and so they pushed around tarnished words like chess pieces in their narrow grid: progress, growth, stability— words any child could see were obscene, were a screen obscuring catastrophe.
Connect the Dots
A veteran slumped in a midnight doorway was trained to kill, so killed, and killing banished sleep. A hurt child, now thirty-two, who never had the food he needed, haunted by his father’s blows, shoots meth. Read the Full Article You've reached the end of our free magazine preview. For full digital access to Sojourners articles for as little as $3.95, please subscribe now. Your subscription allows us to pay authors fairly for their terrific work! Already a subscriber? Login
Poem: Willa Cather’s Ride
By Kim Stafford Selected by Rita Dove July 8, 2019 What’s more titillating than news spread mouth to mouth, hearsay crystallizing into legend? Kim Stafford’s apocryphal account of one celebrated novelist’s beginnings unfolds as a tale within a tale, its unassuming opening drawing us in as ineluctably as the first words spun out over a campfire.
A Friend as Guidepost and Connector
Celebrating a life well connected through the process of death, mourning, memorializing It was impressive, the number of people this 66 year old fellow touched: a father figure, a friend, a guide, a mentor, a guidepost, a brother, and a giver. The service was held in Portland Sat. 4/27 and hundreds showed up at the Quaker church.
Podcast: Randy Fielding on Learning Environments for the Future
In today’s episode, the Getting Smart team is exploring why environment matters — more specifically, why your learning environment matters. Joining the podcast today is Randy Fielding, the founding Chairman of Fielding Nair International — a global leader in designing learning communities. He is also the founder of DesignShare, a facilitator of ideas and resources about best practices and innovation in schools from early childhood through the university level.
The Reader's Prayer
The road takes you from there to here. Here is where you are. Time takes you from then to now. Now is what you have. Language takes you from what you have to what you have to say. When we meet, this is your gift. And writing takes you from what you have to say to what you offer strangers, even enemies in the mystic encounter of reading. May what you have to say be what we need.
For The Toad by the Kitchen Step, 4 a.m. at the Craft School
Today’s poem is “For the Toad by the Kitchen Step, 4 a.m. at the Craft School” by Kim Stafford. Kim is a writer in Oregon who wanders and teaches far and wide--in Alaska, Italy, Scotland, and Bhutan. He is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft.
Allegiance - Image Journal
I pledge allegiance to the doomed life, clumsy person, old salmon that batters up a shallow stream. Marked for hurt by this failing, arrested by a simple glimpse of struggle or cruelty, I see the hopeful swagger of a grown person in a child’s bravado, or the childish hurt in an old-face defeated stare. The weak syllable in a voice, hitch of silence, hint of lessons taught by loss—these plead my devotion. Once I had a sweetgrass bag, but gave it away to a stranger. “You have a sorrow,” she said.
'Poetry Is Pure Research for the Human Project' - BillMoyers.com
April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring examples of “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. Throughout the month we’ll be discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter at #civicpoetry.
Letter to America by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Dear America, Dear Prairie Dog Town, Dear Corn Palace, Dear Largest Potato in the World, Dear worn-out sneakers, Dear Little Gem Diner windows covered with condensation from a hundred conversations and three stale pots of coffee at 2 a.m., Dear giant wood roaches that press their bodies onto the hot pavement after dark in a parking lot behind a community theater in Macon, Georgia, Dear red apples in the hands of three children getting on the subway at 135th Street Station, Dear statue of the...
Best Books for Writers
From the newly published to the invaluable classic, our list of essential books for creative writers. Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.: A Writer’s Guide “Consider this: at one time, all the stories we know so well, every line we may have memorized from a poem or a play, all the literature that has shaped our collective imagination, did not exist,” writes award-winning author and teacher Susan Griffin in this step-by-step guide to the creative process.
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