| 1. Kim Barnes, “Prayer, Piety, Passion, and Prose: One Writer’s Quest for the Sacred”
2. Mary Clearman Blew, Balsamroot: A Memoir. New York: Viking, 1994.
3. Raymond Carver, "Prosser," "My Boat," "The Gift," and "Some Prose on Poetry," in All of Us: The Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
4. Ivan Doig. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
5. David James Duncan, "The Mickey Mantle Koan," in River Teeth: Stories and Writings. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
10. Tess Gallagher, “Last Class with Roethke” and "My Father's Love Letters" in A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1986.
11. Tess Gallagher, "For Certain Foreign Anthologists of Raymond Carver," "Legend with Sea Breeze," and "Northwest by Northwest" in My Black Horse: New and Selected Poems. Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books, 1995.
13. Tess Gallagher, "I Have Never Wanted to March," in Poets Against the War, ed. Sam Hamill with Sally Anderson. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003.
15. Richard Hugo, “Bear Paw” in The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1973.
16. Richard Hugo, “Overlooking Yale,” in Making Certain It Goes On. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1984.
17. Richard Hugo, "The Real West Marginal Way" in The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography, ed. Ripley S. Hugo, Lois M. Welch, and James Welch. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
18. Laura Jensen, "Stars and Streetlights," in Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors, ed. Runciman, Lex and Steven Sher. Corvallis: Arrow Books, 1987.
19. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ed. John Clark Pratt. 1962; New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
20. Ken Kesey, “An Early Draft of the Opening Scene of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” in Pratt, ed.
21. William Kittredge, “Owning It All,” in Owning It All: Essays. St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1987.
22. Carolyn Kizer, “The Great Blue Heron”
23. Carolyn Kizer, “A Poet's Household”
24. Carolyn Kizer, "By the Riverside"
25. Carolyn Kizer, "Singing Aloud"
26. Daniel Lamberton and David Duncan, "Meeting the Author of The Brothers K"
27. Denise Levertov, "Some Affinities of Content "
28. Denise Levertov, "Elusive"
29. Denise Levertov, "Open Secret"
30. Denise Levertov, "Settling"
31. Denise Levertov, "Witness"
32. Wallace Stegner on Norman Maclean, "Haunted by Waters," in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. New York: Random House, 1992.
33. Heather McHugh, "The Size of Spokane"
34. Heather McHugh, "Past All Understanding"
35. Marilynne Robinson, "My Western Roots"
36. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, p. 176-91.
37. Theodore Roethke, "North American Sequence" in The Far Field. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,1964.
38. William Stafford, “Lake Chelan” and “Traveling through the Dark” in The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford. 1962; St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1998.
40. David Wagoner, "Song for the Bones of Salmon"
41. David Wagoner, "Elders"
42. David Wagoner, "Found"
43. David Wagoner, "Lost"
44. David Wagoner, "For a Woman Who Phoned Poetry Northwest Thinking It Was Poultry Northwest"
45. David Wagoner, "The Principles of Concealment" |
