Bill Siverly at 2012 William Stafford Birthday Celebration Linfield College

Bill Siverly was one of the featured poets at the 2012 William Stafford Birthday Celebration in the Nicholson Library at Linfield College.

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Bill is Co-Editor along with Michael J. McDowell of Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place  A journal began in 2002, publishing twice a year.  In 2012 Windfall will ten.  

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He has published three books of poetry: Parzival, (1981), a journey from Lewiston, Idaho to San Francisco, Ireland, and Portland; Phoenix Fire (1987) consisting mostly of anti-nuclear political poems; and  The Turn  (2000), which tells of travels in Europe, mostly in Germany, before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His book Clearwater Way  from Traprock Books (2009).  The Turn and Clearwater Way are available through Windfall Press.

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In keeping with the Stafford Celebration tradition Bill talks about Stafford, reads a Stafford poem and then on of his own.   The one hour Meadowlake Studios Encounter show of the Stafford Celebration will air on McMinnville Community Media.