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Three Oregon poets present their new collections: Bill Siverly with Nightfall (Windfall Press), Penelope Scambly Schott with House of the Cardamom Seed (Cherry Grove), and Barbara Drake with The Road to Lilac Hill (Windfall Press). Preorder a signed edition of Nightfall
Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland poets Bill Siverly and Barbara Drake, whose collections are published by local press, Windfall. Two-thirds of Nightfall, Bill Siverly's sixth book of poetry, includes poems set in the Pacific Northwest--some from Idaho, where Bill grew up, and some from Oregon, where he currently lives. The remaining third consists of poems set in the German city of Görlitz and its environs, which extend into Poland. In the spring and summer of 2016, Bill and Jutta Donath lived three months in Görlitz, the city where Jutta spent her early childhood. Bill's poems reflect the complex history and present reality of life in that easternmost city in Germany. The poems' themes of personal aging reflect the decline of the American Empire and climate change.…
We look forward to another wonderful reading with representative authors from the lastest edition of the Windfall Journal. Reading this evening will be Christine Colasurdo, Kari Easton, David Filer, and Elizabeth McLagan, along with co-editors Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell.
Broadway Books celebrates the Fall 2019 issue of Windfall magazine with a reading on Thursday, November 7th, at 7 pm by four northwest writers represented in the current issue. Poets Melody Leming-Wilson, Melissa Madenski, Lex Runciman and Mark Thalman will read, along with Windfall’s co-editors Michael McDowell and Bill Siverly. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place features poetry that captures the spirit of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly emphasizes poetry written in the Pacific Northwest that is attentive to the relationships between people and the landscapes in which we live. It has been published since 2002.
We are both excited and saddened to be hosting an in-person reading on Wednesday, April 20th, at 6:30 pm, to celebrate Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place, on the occasion of its final issue. Joining co-editors Bill Siverly and Michael McDowell to read on this evening will be Barbara Drake, Eric le Fatte, Charles Goodrich, Marilyn Johnston, Mike Langtry, Elizabeth McLagan, Paulann Petersen, Carlos Reyes, Penelope Scambly Schott, and Dianne Stepp. The first issue of Windfall was published in Fall of 2002. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place features poetry which captures the spirit of place as part of the essence of the poem. The journal particularly emphasized poetry which is written in the Pacific Northwest and which is attentive to the relationships…
Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Bill Siverly and Penelope Scambly Schott for readings from their latest collections. About Starry Night: "Employing a mirrored parallelism for both individual poems and this entire collection, Bill Siverly takes us on a journey that encompasses Germany, his childhood in Idaho, the pandemic, and the drought. Although Starry Night celebrates the balm of the natural world and the joys of a passionate marriage, the gravitas of the tone here is clear: These poems implicate us fully in the destruction we've wrought on our world. Siverly's lyric voice demands we acknowledge 'how in one lifetime we've greased the skids / of our human demise.'" -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, author of One Small Sun Bill Siverly was born and grew…