Washington Poets Association
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Mute Note EarthwardAn anthology from the Washington Poets Association. Mute Note Earthward, the WPA's first annual juried anthology, contains 51 poems by members of the Washington Poets Association. A panel of three judges selected the poems for the collection out of 217 submissions. 2004 WPA Anthology Judges & Their Commentsbill bissett (poet, painter, editor, publisher, band leader, performer, teacher, writer-in-residence, and Canadian icon) has written over 60 published books of poetry. He was founder/owner/editor of blewointment press and magazine (1963-83) which published groundbreaking poetry of every kind. Often controversial and never compromising, his poetry has been debated in Canadian Parliament.
th souls uv sew manee peopul showing theyr beings n presentaysdyus
theyr gifts 2 us sew not eez ee how much coulrage evrething can take amayzing
bill bissett
Dennis Held taught at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, where he was faculty advisor to the Talking River Review. His debut collection is titled Betting on the Night (Lost Horse Press, 2001). His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Willow Springs. His awards include the American Academy of Poets, the Wilderness Essay Award from the University of Idaho, and the Fuller Poetry Prize.
These poems help us celebrate the best in us, in the face of our own bleakest mistakes,
in the redemptive power of the human spirit, a spirit that lives and sings so clearly
in these magnificent poems.
Dennis Held
Belle Randall's books and chapbooks include True Love (Wood Works Press, 2003), Drop Dead Beautiful (Wood Works Press, 1998), and The Orpheus Sedan (Copper Canyon Press, 1980). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University, and a long time faculty member at Cornish College, Belle currently teaches the Master Class in Poetry in the UW extension Writers' Program.
One returns to a sharp sense of the Northwest, its geographies and weather,
of time passing and human mortality.
Belle Randall
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