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| Born | Kim Robert Stafford October 15, 1949 Portland, Oregon |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Relatives | William Stafford (father) |
| 9th Oregon Poet Laureate | |
| In office 2018–2020 | |
| Governor | Kate Brown |
| Preceded by | Elizabeth Woody |
| Succeeded by | Anis Mojgani |
Kim Robert Stafford (born October 15,1949) is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland,Oregon.
Born and raised in Portland,Oregon,Stafford is the son of poet William Stafford. [1] [2] He earned a Bachelor of Arts,Master of Arts in English,and Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon.
Since 1979,he has taught writing at Lewis &Clark College in Portland. He has also taught courses at Willamette University in Salem,at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology,at the Fishtrap writers' gathering,and private workshops in Scotland,Italy,and Bhutan.
In July 2018,he was appointed the 9th Oregon Poet Laureate by Governor Kate Brown. He served in the role until 2020.
He is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and is the literary executor of the Estate of William Stafford. [3] [4]
He was also a contributor to the Multnomah County project When You Were 15, in which "adults from our community share their stories about how an adult made a difference to them when they were fifteen. Several stories from today’s young people prove that they,too,need caring adults. These real life stories show how even a small act of encouragement can make a big difference in a teen’s life." [5]
His work is featured at the Orenco Station on the Rings of Memory Plaza and the Witness Tree Rest.
Lewis &Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland,Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany,Oregon,the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis &Clark College after the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It has three campuses:an undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences,a School of Law,and a Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland,Oregon,United States,owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. West Coast,founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4,1850,and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. The regular edition was published under the title The Morning Oregonian from 1861 until 1937.
William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970.
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Portland Public Schools (PPS) is a public school district located in Portland,Oregon,United States. It is the largest school district in the state of Oregon. It is a PK–12 district with an enrollment of more than 49,000 students. It comprises more than 100 locations,including 79 schools and other sites that are maintained within the district.
David Biespiel is an American poet,critic,memoirist,and novelist born in 1964 and raised in the Meyerland section of Houston,Texas. He is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland,Oregon and Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University.
Multnomah College, was a two-year,private college located in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1897 as the Educational Department of the YMCA in downtown Portland,the school was the oldest fully accredited two-year college in the U.S. Pacific Northwest at the time it was absorbed by the University of Portland (UP) in 1969.
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