Michael J McDowell at William Stafford Birthday Celebration at Linfield College

Michael J McDowell

Michael J McDowell was one of the featured poets at the 2012 William Stafford Birthday Celebration in Nicholson Library at Linfield College.

In 2002 along with Bill Siverly, McDowell co-founded and co-edits Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place.  Windfall is published twice a year.  In 2012 it will be ten years old.

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He has published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in such publications as Penny Dreadful, the Pawn Review, the South Carolina Review , and Confluences.  His poetry is mostly about “a sense of place.” and can be found in Windfall.   He writes nature and landscape prose and his prose has appeared in the anthologies The Ecocriticism Reader (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1996), Reading the Earth (Univ. of Idaho Press, 1998), and Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (Routledge 2001). He teaches poetry writing, creative writing and nonfiction writing at Portland Community College

His most recent book is The Hundred-Year House available from Windfall Press .

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Michael McDowell talks about Stafford, reads a Stafford poem, then reads his own poems. The one hour Meadowlake Studios Encounter of the 2012 William Stafford Birthday Celebration at Linfield College will air on McMinnville Community Media.