The Friends of the Hannon Library will host the 31st William Stafford Poetry Celebration from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, in the Meese Room of Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library.

The event will feature several local poets and includes special guests Steve Paul and Vince Wixon. Steve Paul, a veteran Kansas City writer and journalist, is the author of the books Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year that Launched an American Legend (2017) and Architecture A to Z: An Elemental, Alphabetical Guide to Kansas City’s Built Environment (2011).

His book The Shadow Poet: A Life of William Stafford will be published by Oregon State University Press in 2026. Vince Wixon is a Stafford scholar and the dean of Ashland poets, who is the coeditor of Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems by William Stafford. Featured poets will be Bill Gholson, Lois Schlegel, Perii Owen, and Gary Lark, and the host will be Amy Miller, the poetry editor of the Jefferson Journal. In-person attendees will also be invited to read their favorite William Stafford poem.

Hannon Library

 

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