Now That's What I Call Poetry! Vol. 3
For National Poetry Month, we're spotlighting Oregon's Poet Laureates. This week, we're celebrating the poets who told our story between 2010 and 2016.
For more information about the Poet Laureate program, visit the Library of Congress or the Oregon Cultural Trust. Poetry by all featured poets can be found in From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, available at the Library.
For more information about the Poet Laureate program, visit the Library of Congress or the Oregon Cultural Trust. Poetry by all featured poets can be found in From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, available at the Library.
Paulann Petersen, 2010 - 2014
Paulann Petersen is a teacher, poet, and life-long Oregonian. Petersen tells a beautiful story of William Stafford's visit to her classroom at West Linn High School--dubbed "The William Stafford Room"--just months before he passed away. Petersen has devoted her career to teaching and advocating for poetry in our communities; in 2013, during her second term as poet laureate, she even visited TVCC for a poetry workshop and reading.
More About Paulann Petersen
- Paulann Petersen's personal website
- Paulann Petersen at The Oregon Encyclopedia
- Poems by Paulann Petersen at Oregon Poetic Voices
- Poems by Paulann Petersen at The Poetry Foundation
Peter Sears, 2014 - 2016
Peter Sears was a playful, community-minded poet. He had a hand in many Oregon writing institutions, including the Friends of William Stafford, which he founded with Paulann Petersen, and Fishtrap, an organization that advocates for writing in the West, at which he taught. Sears passed away in 2017.
More About Peter Sears
- Peter Sears' personal website
- Peter Sears at The Oregon Encyclopedia
- Poems by Peter Sears at Oregon Poetic Voices
Read the rest of the series!
- Now That's What I Call Poetry! Vol. 1
- Now That's What I Call Poetry! Vol. 2
- Now That's What I Call Poetry! Vol. 4
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