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 Bob ArnoldPhoto credit to Susan Arnold.Bob Arnold lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont where he has long made a living as a builder, stonemason, poet, and bookseller. He and his wife, Susan Arnold, edit books, anthologies, and journals published by their press, Longhouse.
Selected Books of Poetry and Prose by Bob Arnold
American Train Letters
Any Blossom
Back Road Caller
Cairn
Go West
Habitat
Honeymoon
How We Build
Invent a World
On Stone
Once in Vermont
Sky
Sunswumthru A Building
Where Rivers Meet
Yokel
Arnold is currently editing The New Origin, a continuation of Origin founded by Cid Corman, and writing his ongoing Woodburners series. Both are available online at: www.LonghousePoetry.com
Read two interviews with Bob Arnold at Coyote’s JournalBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Bob Arnold: Any Blossom Invent a World
Cid Corman was a prolific poet, critic, translator, editor, and publisher. He began writing poetry in the 1940s and wrote poetry on a daily basis for the rest of his life. His books, chapbooks, and broadsides number in excess of 400. He was born in Boston, earned a BA from Tufts University in 1945, and briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Sorbonne, and he held teaching positions in Italy and Japan.
Corman wrote using a range of formal approaches; however, his later poems consistently employ long, slender verses filled with word play, enjambment, and short lines. His subject matter also varies considerably over his career but one concern appears repeatedly. Corman created the term “livingdying” to describe this central focus in his poetry: life and death are connected in every moment and with every breath.
In addition to his writing his own poetry, Corman helped to circulate work by other writers. In 1949, he began a poetry program on the radio that was on the air for three years. He then began the first series of Origin, a literary publication of poetry and essays. As the editor of Origin and the publisher of Origin Press, he published often for the first time poets including William Bronk, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, and Gary Snyder. While Corman’s own poetry is difficult to classify in terms of a single group or movement, he was connected to poets affiliated with the Objectivists, the Black Mountain Writers, and the San Francisco Renaissance - connections reflected in his work as an editor and publisher.
Corman translated works from many languages - including French, German, Chinese, and Japanese - into English. He called this work “transvising” to emphasize the creative component to his translation process, and he believed that if one word of a poem was changed, then the new version became a new poem in its own right.
Corman lived off and on in Japan for much of his life, and it was in Japan that he met and married Shizumi Corman. Cid Corman passed away in Kyoto, Japan in 2004.
A Brief Biography of Works by Cid Corman
And the Word
Auspices
Back Roads to Far Towns
The Despairs
The Exultations
For Granted
For In-stance
How Now
In No Time
Just For Now
LivingdyingBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Cid Corman: The Exultations For Crying Out Loud Just for Now
 Thomas Rain CroweThomas Rain Crowe, Tuckaseegee, NC was born in 1949 and is an internationally-known and published poet, translator, editor, publisher, recording artist and author of more than thirty books of original and translated works. He grew up in the southern tip of the Blue Ridge mountains, spending his most youthful years in remote Graham County in Western North Carolina. After high school in the Shenandoah of Virginia and college at Furan University, where he majored in Anthropology, he spent the 1970s living abroad in France and then returning to the U.S. to become editor of Beatitude magazine and press in San Francisco and one of the Baby Beats and where he was co-founder and Director of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival. In the 1980s, after returning to his boyhood home in North Carolina, he was a founding editor of Katuah Journal: A Bioregional Journal of the Southern Appalachians and founded New Native Press while living in Polk, Yancey, Madison and Jackson counties. In 1994 he founded Fern Hill Records (a recording label devoted exclusively to the collaboration of poetry and music). Almost immediately, he formed his spoken-word and music band Thomas Rain Crowe & The Boatrockers--who have performed widely and produced two CDs that have garnered acclaim by the likes of Pete Townshend of The Who and Joy Harjo. In 1998 his books The Laugharne Poems (which was written at the Dylan Thomas Boat House in Laugharne, Wales during the summers of 1993 and 1995 with the permission of the Welsh government) was published in Wales by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.In the same year, his ground-breaking anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets Writing The Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) that includes poetry in Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Manx was published in the U.S., and his first volume of translations of the poems of the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz, In Winesellers Street, was released. As a translator he has translated the work of Yvan Goll ( 10,000 Dawns, White Pine Press, 2004), Guillevic, Hughes-Alain Dal ( Why I Am A Monster, Tarabuste Editions, France, 2006), Marc Ichall and Hafiz. In 2002 a second volume of his translations of Hafiz ( Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz) was published by Shambhala. For six years he was Editor-at-Large for the Asheville Poetry Review. His memoir in the style of Thoreaus Walden based on four years of self-sufficient living in a wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982 ( Zoros Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods) was published by the University of Georgia Press in the spring of 2005, and won the 2005 Ragan Award as the best book of nonfiction in the state of North Carolina as well as the Southern Environmental Law Centers prestigious Reed Award for a book of environmental nonfiction. His most recent book is a collection of essays and articles of nature activist writings covering a period of some twenty years and is focused on bioregional ideology and environmental issues haunting his Western North Carolina bioregion and watershed. As an environmental activist since 1979 he has worked with and/or helped to found such organizations as The Canary Coalition, AMUSE (Artists & Musicians United for a Safe Environment), The Project to Protect Native American Sacred Sites in the Southern Appalachians, the Western Carolina Alliance, The Southern Biodiversity Project (Wild South) and the Environmental Leadership Council for Western North Carolina (Warren-Wilson College). He has written articles, editorials and news stories for such regional publications as Green Line, Wild Mountain Times, Mountain Xpress and The New Southerner. Since 1984 he has lived in Jackson County, and since 1993 in the Little Canada community in Tuckasegee of Jackson County in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where he continues to write features and columns on culture, community and the environment for the Smoky Mountain News. His literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina. Books for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Thomas Rain Crowe: The Blue Rose of Venice
 Jonathan GreeneBorn: April 19, 1943, New York City
Graduated Barnard School (now part of Horace-Mann), Riverdale, New York, 1960; graduated Bard College 1965 with thesis on Hermann Broch, studied American Literature with Ralph Ellison. Studied poetry with Robert Lowell (at New York Writers Conference, 1961) and Folklore with Alan Dundes (University of California, 1963). Moved to Kentucky in 1966.
The author of 26 books (full size and chapbooks): The Reckoning, Matter Books, 1966; Instance, Buttonwood, 1968; The Lapidary, Black Sparrow, 1969; A 17th Century Garner, Buttonwood, 1969; Scaling the Walls, Gnomon, 1974; Glossary of the Everyday, Coach House, 1974; Peripatetics, Truck, 1978; Once a Kingdom Again, Sand Dollar, 1979; Quiet Goods Larkspur, 1980; Idylls, Iron Mountain, 1983; Small Change for the Long Haul, Station Hill, 1984; Trickster Tales, Coach House, 1985; Idylls, {Enlarged, revised, edition}, North Carolina Wesleyan, 1990; Les Chambres des Poètes, French Broad, 1990; The Man Came to Haul Stone, Dim Gray Bar, 1995;
Of Moment, Gnomon, 1998, Inventions of Necessity, Gnomon, 1998, Incidents of Travels in Japan, Bookgirl Press, 1999; A Little Ink in the Paper Sea, Tangram, 2001; Book of Correspondences, tel-let, 2002; Watching Dewdrops Fall, Mountains & Rivers Press., 2003, Hummingbirds Water Trough, Longhouse, 2003, Fault Lines, Broadstone 2004, On the Banks of Monks Pond, The Thomas Merton / Jonathan Greene Correspondence, Broadstone 2004, The Death of a Kentuicky Coffee-Tree & Other Poems, Longhouse, 2006, Gists Orts Shards, A Commonplace Book, Broadstone, 2006. Magazine publications include Origin, Poetry, Sulfur, American Voice, Quarterly Review of Literature, etc. and in a number of anthologies include: The American Literary Anthology, New Directions 20 and 34, The Gist of Origin, Active Anthology, Bookworms, What Book!?, Home, Clotheslines, etc. Plus essays and translations in such publications as The Merton Annual and Rural Japan (Smithsonian). Fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Federation of State Arts Agencies, and Kentucky Arts Council.
Readings at many colleges including: Cornell University, Indiana University, Bowling Green (Ohio), Bennington College, Poetry Center at San Francisco State, Mills College, University of Kentucky, etc.
Since 1965 Greene has edited and published over sixty books under the Gnomon Press imprint including works by Robert Duncan, Wendell Berry, Cid Corman, Jonathan Williams, James Still, Jim Wayne Miller, Robert Morgan, Gurney Norman, etc. He worked for The University Press of Kentucky as Designer & Production Mgr. from 1967-1976. He now does free-lance book design and has won a number of awards in this field.
REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY JONATHAN GREENE
“Unlike most of the current poets who report what they feel (or even worse, what they felt), Greene gives the living experience to respond to
.this solid collection, page by page, provides new insights,fresh handling, an original voice, and fine technical skill. Ranging from brief lyrics to longer meditative works, this is not a book that empties itself soon, but a book to be reread and savored.”
- review in ‘Choice’ of Scaling the Walls
“Greene is set apart from many contemporaries by his calm sure sense of what he has to say.”
- review in ‘Booklist’ of Peripatetics
“It’s a beautiful book, primarily because the poems in it are extraordinary. Each is a moment of special intensity or irony. In each, something commonplace is elevated and made unusual.”
- review in 'Louisville Courier-Journal' of Idylls
“Jonathan Greene’s low-keyed objectivity lets him take on an impressive variety of subjects: nursing homes and cocktail parties, lovemaking and lectures, wedding albums, soap operas, teenage gangs. He is haunted by oblivion, writes beautifully of dying generations, yet shows himself - in the indispensable “History of the Great Poem” - possessed of a delicate and benign wit.”
- review in 'Village Voice' of Small Change for the Long Haul
“There is a lyric delight in the world that informs all of Greene’s poetry, from man’s pratfalls to the occasions of moment. There is a human face staring at us from these pages - yours , mine - one that has Greene chuckling or rapt, our heads nodding alongside or shaking with these sweet peccadilloes our nature permits. He turns our world and our natures, turns us - and himself - just enough 'til his poems, marvelous creations, generous gifts, come round right.”
- review in 'Asheville Poetry Review' of Inventions of Necessity and Of MomentBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Jonathan Greene: Hut Poems Watching Dewdrops Fall Of Moment
Harr was a widely published writer whose creative works included haiku, senryu, renga, tanka, haibun, free verse poetry, cinquain, and children’s stories. She published articles on these forms in newspapers, literary and educational journals, and magazines. Harr also authored fifteen books of poetry, including Under the Roan Cliffs: A Collection of Renga, 1994-2001, which was written with Brad Wolthers. She wrote for many years under the name Tombo (Dragonfly), and her work received numerous awards from national and international organizations.
In 1972, Harr founded the Western World Haiku Society, and she edited six anthologies of Western World Haiku Society Annual Contest Award Winners. From 1972-1984, she edited Dragonfly, one of the first and most respected English-language haiku journals. She led the Tombo Haiku Group in Portland, Oregon, and she held a teacher’s degree in Ryusei-ha Ikebana. Harr passed away in 2006.
Books by Lorraine Ellis Harr (Tombo)
Cats, Crows, Frogs, and Scarecrows
China Sojourn
A Flight of Herons
Modern Narrow Roads to Matsushima
Pathways of the Dragonfly: Seventy/Sevens
Poems for Peter K.
Poems for Sarah J.
The Red Barn
Ripe Papaya and Orange Slices
Selected Senryu of LEH
Snowflakes in the Wind
Sundowners
Tombo: Dragonfly Haiku
Under the Roan Cliffs: A Collection of Renga, 1994-2001
Walls of SilenceBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Lorraine Ellis Harr: Under the Roan Cliffs: A Collection of Renga Walls of Silence
William J Higginson information coming soon! Books for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by William J Higginson: The Seasons in Haikai
John Martone information coming soon! Books for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by John Martone: Dwelling
 Paulann PetersenPhoto credit to Richard Berry.PUBLICATIONS:
Poems published in many literary magazines including Poetry; The New Republic; Prairie Schooner;Poetry Northwest; Willow Springs; Notre Dame Review; Calyx; Seattle Review; The Alembic; Pearl; Blue Unicorn; Clearwater Journal; Calapooya Collage; Hubbub; CutBank; Sequoia; Florilegia; Weber Studies; Wilderness Magazine; Portlander; From Here We Speak, An Anthology of Oregon Poetry; Claiming the Spirit Within, an anthology of women poets from Beacon Press; The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1997 Edition; O Poetry! Oh Poesia! Poems of Oregon and Peru; and Wildsong from the University of Georgia Press. Also the Northwest Poets and Artists 1989 Calendar, and POETRY IN MOTION, which places poems on the Tri-met busses and lightrail cars in the Portland area.
Three appearances on POETRY DAILY, www.poems.com
Three chapbooks: Under the Sign of a Neon Wolf published by Confluence Press, 1989; The Animal Bride, from Trask House Press in 1994; Fabrication from 26 Books in 1996.
Three full-length books:
The Wild Awake, published by Confluence Press, 2002.
Blood-Silk,, published by Quiet Lion Press in 2004.
A Bride of Narrow Escape, published by Cloudbank Books in 2006.
AWARDS:
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 1986-87
Carolyn Kizer Poetry Award, 1989, 1997
Nine nominations for a Pushcart Prize
Stewart Holbrook Award for Outstanding Contributions to Oregon’s Literary Life, 2006
Finalist, Oregon Book Award in Poetry, 2006
READINGS: Willamette University; University of Portland, Marylhurst University; Lewis and Clark College; Linfield College; American Studies Research Center, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India; Reed College; Portland State University; Mountain Writers Series, Mount Hood Community College; Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington; Clark College, Vancouver Washington; Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande, Oregon; Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon; Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington.
Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Washington; Powell's Bookstore, Portland, Oregon; International Women's Day, Portland, Oregon; Looking Glass Bookstore, Portland, Oregon; Borders Bookstore; Oregon State Poetry Association Fall Keynote Address and Reading; Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon; Westwind Review Series, Ashland, Oregon; Lane Literary Guild, Eugene, Oregon; Portland Poetry Festival; KBOO Radio, Portland, Oregon; Rendezvous Reading Series, Seattle, Washington; Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, Santa Barbara, California; Rattlesnake Mountain Writers' Workshop, Richland, Washington; Kepler's Bookstore, Menlo Park, California; KSOR Radio, "Talk Story," Ashland, Oregon.
EDUCATION & TEACHING
Attended Pomona College; Southern Oregon University (B.S. and M.S. in Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts--graduating Summa Cum Laude, the Outstanding Graduate Student of 1984); Stanford University (graduate work as a Stegner Fellow in poetry).
In addition to having taught high school English (at West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon, and at Mazama High School, Klamath Falls, Oregon), has taught a number of poetry workshops for colleges and writers' conferences, including Oregon Writers' Workshop in Portland (Northwest College of Art, Portland Art Museum), Mountain Writers, Oregon State Poetry Association, The Creative Arts Community at Menucha, and Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.
Listen to an Interview with Paulann Petersen on Oregon Public Broadcasting's radio show, Northwest PassagesBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Paulann Petersen: Kindle
 Ce RosenowPhoto credit to Angie ThompsonCe Rosenow founded her first small press publishing company, North Lake Press, in 1990 and she co-edited its primary publication, Northwest Literary Forum, until 1997. She also co-founded Irving Street Press in 1996 and helped edit Portlandia Review of Books and a series of broadsides from the press before creating Mountains and Rivers Press in 2001.
Her original poetry, essays, translations, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad. She is the author of five collections of poetry: The Backs of Angels (Tel-let Press), Even If (Tel-let Press), North Lake (Mountain Gate Press), Pacific (Mountain Gate Press) and A Year Longer (Longhouse Publishers). She is also one of the eight co-authors of Beyond Within: A Collection of Rengay (Sundog Press) and the co-editor with Bob Arnold of The Next One Thousand Years, Selected Poems of Cid Corman (Longhouse Publishers).
Ce being interviewed by Drew Myron for her poetry blog: Off the PageBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Ce Rosenow: Pacific
 Laura WinterPhoto credit to Brad Winter.This poet and artist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. The western landscape with all its hoo doos, headlands, basin and range, whitewater and rain are the foundation from which she works. Winter’s love for improvised music also informs how she approaches using the English language. Improvised music structures soundscapes and silences - create an interesting tension between sound, words and silence in the landscape of her imagist poetry.
Laura Winter’s poetry collections include:
Coming Here to be Alone, 2007 Bochum Germany. Limited bi-lingual edition published for the SilentArt Festival
sleeping leaves, Mountains and Rivers Press, 2002 (Eugene, OR)
not gone / just not here, 2001 (Portland, OR)
No Gravy Baby, unnum Press, 2000 (Portland, OR)
skin into dust, 26 Books, 1994 (Portland, OR)
Co-author of Stone Fog, Membrane Press, 1987 (Milwaukee, WI)
Broadside
Two Poems For Cid Corman’s Passing March 2004, Mountains and Rivers Press 2005 (Eugene, OR). Printed by Swamp Press, MA
Winter has been widely published and her work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including
A Change In Weather, Anthology of Midwest Women Poets; High/Coo; Boom; Cream City Review; Anemone; Poetic Space; Portland Review; Mr. Cogito; Z Miscellaneous; Perceptions; Pointed Circle; Fireweed; Portlander, Plazm, Rain City Review, Talus And Scree, Northwest Literary Forum, Portlandia Review Of Books, Hummingbird ,and The Temple, The Oregonian, Origin.
Her poems have been used as liner notes for Cds and set to music by composers. She appears on educational interactive software, Writing for Readers by Pierian Spring Software.
Winter currently publishes TAKE OUT, a bag-a-zine of art, writing and music that features powerful voices from around the globe. Some her poetry and music projects include work with musicians Vinny Golia, Torsten Mueller, Garth Powell, Rob Blakeslee, Billy Mintz, Michael Bisio. She has been the guest of honor for the SilentArt Festival 2007 in Bochum Germany. Coming Here to be Alone was translated into German and published in a limited edition with the translations and English versions.
Watch an interview with Laura WinterBooks for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Laura Winter: Sleeping Leaves Two Poems For Cid Corman's Passing March 2004 Coming Here to be Alone
 Brad WolthersWolthers is a woodworker, grandpa, poet, and photographer living in Hillsboro, Oregon. He published haiku and poetry consistently in the 1980s and '90s and is a student of the haiku form of the late Lorraine Ellis Harr. He coauthored two books: Nine Steps: A Japanese Garden In The Fog, with the late Wilma Erwin (1994, Mountain Gate Press), and Under the Roan Cliffs: A Collection of Renga, 1994-2001, with Lorraine Ellis Harr (Mountains and Rivers Press, 2005). Nine Steps is currently in its third printing. Books for Sale on Mountains and Rivers Press by Brad Wolthers: Under the Roan Cliffs: A Collection of Renga
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