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Oregon Poet Laureate
The position of Oregon Poet Laureate has existed since 1923. The incumbent is Anis Mojgani. Oregon Poets Laureate are appointed by the Governor of Oregon. Since 2006, the Poet Laureate program is administered by the Oregon Cultural Trust.http://oregonpoetlaureate.org/ List of Oregon Poets Laureate #Edwin Markham (1923–1931) # Ben Hur Lampman (1951–1954) # Ethel Romig Fuller (1957–1965) # William Stafford (1975–1990) #Lawson Fusao Inada (2006–2010) #Paulann Petersen (2010–2014) # Peter Sears (2014–2016) #Elizabeth Woody (2016–2018) #Kim Stafford (2018–2020) #Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is an American spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani has been characterized as a "geek genius" with "fiercely hopeful word arias." Ear ... (2020–present) References External links * Oregon culture 1923 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anis Mojgani
Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is an American spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani has been characterized as a "geek genius" with "fiercely hopeful word arias." Early life and education Mojgani was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He later moved to Georgia and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sequential art and a Master of Fine Arts in performing arts. Career Over the course of his career, Mojgani has been a member of several poetry slam teams. He was also a member of 2007's Solomon Sparrow's Electric Whale Revival and 2008's Junkyard Ghost Revival, both of which featured poets Buddy Wakefield and Derrick C. Brown as actively-touring members. Mojgani won back-to-back titles in the National Individual Poetry Slam in 2005 and 2006, was interviewed in 2006 on KUOW-FM's ''The Beat'', and was in the documentary ''Slam Planet: War of the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Oregon
The governor of Oregon is the head of government of Oregon and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The title of governor was also applied to the office of Oregon's chief executive during the provisional and U.S. territorial governments. The current 38th governor of Oregon is Kate Brown, who took office following the resignation of Governor John Kitzhaber amid an ethics scandal. The governor's current salary was set by the 2001 Oregon Legislature at $93,600 annually. Constitutional descriptions Article V of the Oregon State Constitution sets up the legal framework of the Oregon Executive Branch. Eligibility Article V, Section 1 states that the governor must be a U.S. citizen, at least 30 years of age, and a resident of Oregon for at least three years before the candidate's election. Section 2 extends ineligibility as follows: Section 1 further sets the maximum number of consecutive years a governor may serve, specifying that There is no spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Cultural Trust
Oregon Cultural Trust is a cultural promotion and preservation organization in the U.S. state of Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T .... It provides grants and funding to arts, humanities, and heritage organizations to stabilize and expand. The Trust's partners include the Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Oregon Heritage Commission, Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. The trust is funded by the State of Oregon, corporate sponsors, and private donations. A special series of vehicle license plate also helps fund the trust. References External links Official website Organizations based in Oregon Oregon culture Arts organizations based in Oregon 2002 establishments in Oregon { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham; April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved with his mother to Lagoon Valley in Solano County, California. He obtained a teaching certificate in 1870 from Pacific Methodist College in Vacaville. Markham then attended San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) as a member of the first graduating class (1872), and wrote the poem The Man with the Hoe. The house in which he wrote the poem was preserved and moved to the city's History Park, and now serves as a poetry center. He went by "Charles" until about 1895, when he was about 43, when he started using "Edwin." He also studied at Christian College in Santa Rosa, California in 1873. In 1898, Markham married his third wife, Anna Catherine Murphy ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hur Lampman
Ben Hur Lampman (August 12,Passport Applications, January 2, 1906-March 31, 1925; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ben_hur_lampman_passport_application_1922.jpg); General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59; National Archives, Washington, D.C. 1886 – January 24, 1954) was an American newspaper editor, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He was a longtime associate editor at ''The Oregonian'' in Portland, Oregon, and he served as Poet laureate of Oregon from 1951 until his death. Early life Ben Lampman was born on August 12, 1886, in Barron, Wisconsin. His father, H. H. Lampman, owned a newspaper in Barron. The family moved to Neche, North Dakota, when Ben was 4 years old, and his father founded another newspaper in Neche after arriving there. As a boy, he worked in his father's print shop. He left home at age 15 and worked in the wheat country of Canada. He returned to North Dakota. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Romig Fuller
Ethel Romig Fuller (February 26, 1883 – December 13, 1965) was Oregon's third Poet Laureate (1957–1965), and the state's first female Poet Laureate. She was also editor of '' The Oregonian's'' poetry section from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. Biography Fuller was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, on February 26, 1883, and attended the Eastern Michigan Normal School. After visiting Oregon on vacation, she moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1906 and attended the Portland Extension Center. After climbing Mount Hood, she dedicated herself to writing about the Northwest. Fuller began writing poetry in the early 1920s. She lived in both Oregon and Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on .... When Fuller found out that the ''Oregonian'' was going to discontinue publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stafford (poet)
William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) 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. Early life Background Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, the oldest of three children in a highly literate family. During the Depression, his family moved from town to town in an effort to find work for his father. Stafford helped contribute to family income by delivering newspapers, working in sugar beet fields, raising vegetables, and working as an electrician's apprentice. Stafford graduated from high school in the town of Liberal, Kansas in 1933. After initially attending senior college, he received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1937. He was drafted into the United States armed forces in 1941 while pursuing his master's degree at the University of Kansas, but declared himself a pacifist. As a registered conscientious objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawson Fusao Inada
Lawson Fusao Inada (born May 26, 1938) is a Japanese American poet. He was the fifth poet laureate of the state of Oregon. Early life Born May 26, 1938, Inada is a third-generation Japanese American (''Sansei''). His father, Fusaji, worked as a dentist, while his mother, Masako, helped run the family fish market in Fresno's Chinatown. In May 1942, at the age of three years, Inada and his family were Japanese American internment, interned for the duration of World War II at camps in Big Fresno Fairgrounds#Fresno Assembly Center, Fresno, the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas, and Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado. After the war, the Inadas returned to Fresno and once again ran the fish market, having trusted the business to family friends who operated it on their behalf during their confinement. Jazz influences Following the war, Inada became a jazz musician, a bass (instrument), bassist, following the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Billie Holiday, to whom he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulann Petersen
Paulann Petersen (born 1942) an American poet from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, she was Oregon's sixth poet laureate. Biography Petersen was born in 1942 in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from Franklin High School in Southeast Portland. Following high school she went to Pomona College in Claremont, California, before returning to Oregon. Petersen settled in Klamath Falls in Southern Oregon with her family, remaining for 31 years. In 1991, she returned to Portland where she taught high school English at schools such as West Linn High School. Literary career In 1975, she had her first published piece, a poem in ''The Oregonian''. Petersen was a Stegner Fellow in 1986–1987. She twice has won Carloyn Kizer Poetry Awards, and also was the recipient of the Stewart Holbrook Award, given for contributions to Oregon literature. In 2002, ''The Wild Awake''—her first full-length collection of poems—was published by Confluence Press. Two years later, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sears (poet)
Peter H. Sears (May 18, 1937 – July 20, 2017) was an American poet based in Oregon. In 2014, he was named the seventh poet laureate of the U.S. state of Oregon. Literary career Sears was born in New York City on May 18, 1937. He graduated from Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He won the 1999 Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition and the 2000 Western States Poetry Prize for his book of poems, ''The Brink''. His first book-length collection, ''Tour'', was published in 1987. He has also published four chapbooks of poetry and two teaching books, ''Secret Writing'' and ''Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem''. His work has been published in many magazines and literary journals, widely anthologized and included in the radio series, ''The Writer's Almanac''. His most recent full-length book is titled ''Green Diver''. Sears founded and managed the Oregon Literary Coalition and co-founded the non-profit organization Friends of William Stafford. Sears moved to Oregon in 1974 to teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Woody
Elizabeth Woody (born 1959) is an American Navajo/ Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama artist, author, and educator. In March 2016, she was the first Native American to be named poet laureate of Oregon by Governor Kate Brown. Background Elizabeth Woody was born in Ganado, Arizona, in 1959.Lester, Patrick D. ''The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995: 628. . She is born for Tódích'íinii (Bitter Water clan). Her maternal grandmother belongs to the Milee-thlama (People of the Hot Springs) and Wyampum peoples (People of the Echo of Water Upon Rocks). Her maternal grandfather's people were the middle Columbia River Chinook peoples. After studying at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1980 to 1983, she earned a bachelor's degree in Humanities with an emphasis in English from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In 2012 she received a Master of Public Administration Degree through the Exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Stafford
Kim Robert Stafford (born October 15, 1949) is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland, Oregon. Early life and education Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Stafford is the son of poet William Stafford. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts in English, and Ph.D. in medieval literature from the University of Oregon. Career 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. He was also a contributor to the Multnomah County project ''When You Were 15,'' in which "adults from our community share their stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
