Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Oregon’s most famous poet is William Stafford, a National Book Award recipient, U.S. Special Consultant to the Library of Congress (now called Poet Laureate), and author of over 60 books. Stafford’s poetry assumes a companionable commonality with the things of this world, people, animals, the other than human. Robert Bly wrote, “Of all the American poets of the last thirty years, I think William Stafford broods most …