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 Poetryavailable at the Library.

Oregon Poet Laureate 2010-2014

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.



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Oregon Poet Laureate 2014-2016

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.


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