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Members' Anthology Volume One

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2005 Anthology
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Mute Note Earthward

An anthology from the Washington Poets Association.

Mute Note Earthward, the WPA's first annual juried anthology, contains 51 poems by members of the Washington Poets Association. A panel of three judges selected the poems for the collection out of 217 submissions.

2004 WPA Anthology Judges & Their Comments

bill bissett (poet, painter, editor, publisher, band leader, performer, teacher, writer-in-residence, and Canadian icon) has written over 60 published books of poetry. He was founder/owner/editor of blewointment press and magazine (1963-83) which published groundbreaking poetry of every kind. Often controversial and never compromising, his poetry has been debated in Canadian Parliament.

th souls uv sew manee peopul showing theyr beings n presentaysdyus theyr gifts 2 us sew not eez ee how much coulrage evrething can take amayzing
bill bissett

Dennis Held taught at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, where he was faculty advisor to the Talking River Review. His debut collection is titled Betting on the Night (Lost Horse Press, 2001). His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Willow Springs. His awards include the American Academy of Poets, the Wilderness Essay Award from the University of Idaho, and the Fuller Poetry Prize.

These poems help us celebrate the best in us, in the face of our own bleakest mistakes, in the redemptive power of the human spirit, a spirit that lives and sings so clearly in these magnificent poems.
Dennis Held

Belle Randall's books and chapbooks include True Love (Wood Works Press, 2003), Drop Dead Beautiful (Wood Works Press, 1998), and The Orpheus Sedan (Copper Canyon Press, 1980). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University, and a long time faculty member at Cornish College, Belle currently teaches the Master Class in Poetry in the UW extension Writers' Program.

One returns to a sharp sense of the Northwest, its geographies and weather, of time passing and human mortality.
Belle Randall

Mute Note Earthward contains poems by

Judith Adams
Jane Alynn
Murray Anderson
Bart Baxter
Sheila Bender
Marian Blue
Karen Bonaudi
Barbara Bowen
Deborah Brink
Rhonda Broatzh
John Burgess
Dennis Caswell
Carolyn Cox
Beth Coyote
Darcy J. Crane
Nancy Dahlberg
John Davis
Tom Erdmann Jr.
J. Glenn Evans
Claudia Riif Finseth
Erin M. Fristad
David Gravender
Thomas Hubbard
Christopher J. Jarmick
Tammy Kay Kaiser
Donald Kentop
Janet N. Knox
Jennifer Lawrence
Jeanne Lohmann
Michael Magee
Linda Malnack
Terry Martin
Denise Calvetti Michaels
Kay Mullen
Jean Musser
Paul Nelson
Leonard Orr
Susan Rich
Stephen Roxborough
Darla Saville
Victory Lee Schouten
Sarah Singer
Knute Skinner
Diane D. Stone
Lorri L. Smith
Sharon E. Svendsen
Diane Westergaard
Dorothy Williams
Jane Winslow
Sarah Zale
Pieter Zilinsky
Random Poems
Author Title
Brad Hatfield Charles Bukowski Kicking His Friend
Brad Hatfield Uncoupling, Or, The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Ann Pelo October Moon
Karen Bonaudi They Call the Wind Quincy
Joesph Longerboats go to your reward
Stephen Roxborough impeach yourself!
Priya Keefe Dream of Eden
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