Vol.24 No.2 – Winter 2021-Spring 2022
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
Convergences: William Stafford and Robert Bly by Tim Barnes
Agreeing Where the Water Goes: The Enduring Friendship of William Stafford and Robert Bly by Asher Packman
Listening to the Wind in a Stafford Quartet by Steve Paul
The Roots of William Stafford’s Kansas Regionalism by James Armstrong
Bly (and others on Stafford)
Kansas in His Voice by Shelley Reece
The Way It Is (photo of fabric art by Bonnie Meltzer)
Robert Bly’s Working-with-Things Project by William Stafford
Thinking of Bill in Atchison, Kansas by Robert Bly
News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
Looking for a Pen
Minimum Carol
Some Things in My Fantasy Life
Words, Books, Stories
First Clarine
Father, His Friend, and Another (all of the poems above are from Stafford’s chapbook Writing the World and do not appear in other collections)
Notice: A Bly Prescription by William Stafford
What Bill Stafford was Like by Robert Bly
Taking Robert Bly to Buy a Scarf by Kim Stafford
Conversation with Bill Stafford by Robert Bly
A Poetry Reading at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, by Robert Bly
Vol.25 No.1 – Summer-Fall 2022
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
New The Way It Is of the Mind by Vincent Wixon
How a wintess to war helped shape Stafford’s outlook on Vietnam by Steve Paul
The Social Self: William Stafford’s introduction to Pragmatism at the U. of Kansas by James Armstrong
New, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
The Right Time
Center of the World
Something Walter Clark Said
Late August at the Game Refuge
Finding Sky Ranch
In Oregon
On the Backrack at Corner Drugs
Seduction River
A Proposition
Shepherd
(All the poems above are uncollected poems by Stafford)
With So Many Military Metaphors During the Pandemic, I Think of the Civilian Public Service Boys Yet again by Becca J.R. Lachman
After Hearing of Another Miraculous Pregnancy While Re-reading ‘Taveling Through the Dark’ by Becca J.R. Lachman
Daily Practice by Becca J.R. Lachman
Vol.25 No.2 – Summer-Fall 20
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “The Pacifist Poet, the Nuclear Physicist, and a Moment in Literary Time” by Steve Paul
• “The 2023 ASLE/AESS Conference” by Tim Barnes
• “Pragmatism and the Commons: Dewey’s Evolutionary Naturalism and William Stafford’s Poetry” by James Armstrong
• “Sturdy for Common Things: William Stafford and the Concept of the Commons” by Tim Barnes
• “The Darkness Around Us is Deep” by John K. Roth
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• “A Day Last Summer” by William Stafford
• “Finding Sky Ranch” (broadside) by William Stafford
•. “My Father’s Mottos” by Kim Stafford
• “Because a Pacifist Would not Consent” by Shaun Griffin
• “Walt” by Kim Stafford
• “Offerings” by Ingrid Wendt
• “At Their Mountain Retreat” by Ingrid Wendt
• “A Meditation of William Stafford’s ‘Meditation’” by Easton Branam
• “Some Words” by Steve Paul
Vol.26 No.1
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “William Stafford’s Alignment with Indigenous American Poetics” by Denise Low
• “Robert Johnson and William Stafford: History of a Book Arts Collaboration” by James Armstrong
• “‘Ask Me Mistakes I Have Made’ Kim Stafford responds to questions from Chinese translator Ma Qiwang
• “‘Kinship’ and William Stafford” by Tim Barnes
• “Bill Stafford, Doug Marx, and Left Bank Magazine” by Dennis Stovall
• “Anxious in the Managed Commons: The Sorrow of the Irreversible in ‘Traveling through the Dark’ and ‘King’s Mountain’” by Brandon Krieg
• Sightings: (Cascadia Field Guide: Art/Ecology/Poetry; War by Other Means: How the Pacifists of WWII Changed America for Good)
• “Patty Wixon (1936-2024)
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• “For a Distant Friend” by William Stafford
• “Notes” by William Stafford
• “Encounter” by William Stafford
• “The Haines Place, Mile 68, Fairbanks, Alaska” by William Stafford
• “On a Walk One Rainy Morning” by William Stafford
• “The Free Pile” by Kim Stafford
• “Hard Inheritance” by Kim Stafford
• “Polite, Profane” by Kim Stafford
• “Walking Away” by Kim Stafford
• “What I Learned at Sixty-Six” by Patty Wixon
Vol.27 No.1
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Traveling Through the Light” by Tim Hunt
• “William Stafford’s Friendship: A Correspondence” by Denise Low
• “The Singular Vision of William Stafford” by Shaun T. Griffin
• “Stafford’s ‘Footnote’ to the ‘Last Wild Indian’” by James Armstrong
• Sightings: (The Stafford Challenge 2024-2025 Anthology) by Tim Barnes
• “Martha Gatchell (1941-2025)”
• News, Notes, and Opportunities
POETRY IN THIS ISSUE:
• “Traveling Through the Light” by Tim Hunt
• “Late at Night” by William Stafford
• “Staring at Souvenirs of the West” by William Stafford
• “The Day That is Already Tomorrow” by William Stafford
• “Variations on Keening” by Denise Low
• “A Quick Note from the Bluff” by Martha Gatchell