Clemens Starck

Clemens Starck was born in 1937. A Princeton dropout and former merchant seaman, he has supported his literary and intellectual interests for more than fifty years by working with his…

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Judith Montgomery

Judith H. Montgomery lives in Oregon City.  Her poems appear in The Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tahoma Literary Review, among other journals, as well as in a number of anthologies.  She’s been…

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Don Colburn

Don Colburn came to poetry late, in the midst of a long career as a journalist. He worked as a reporter for The Washington Post and The Oregonian and was a finalist for the…

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Matthew Minicucci

Matthew Minicucci’s most recent collection, Small Gods (New Issues), won the 2019 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award in Poetry. His first book, Translation (Kent State University Press), was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014…

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Claudia Savage

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage’s work appears in print, onstage, and in museums and explores multidisciplinary collaboration and diaspora. She is a Black Earth Institute fellow for 2018-2021 and part of the music-poetry performance…

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