William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many credentials, Stafford served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award for his poetry collection
The William Stafford Archives, donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Stafford family in 2008, contain the private papers, publications, photographs, recordings, and teaching materials of the poet William Stafford. The Lewis & Clark College Special Collections actively add to this collection by acquiring unique Stafford related materials.
Stafford wrote every day of his life from 1950 to 1993. These 20,000 pages of daily writings form a complete record of the poet’s mostly early morning meditations, including poem drafts, dream records, aphorisms, and other visits to the unconscious, recorded on separate sheets of yellow or white paper or when traveling, often in spiral-bound reporters’ steno pads. The archive also includes typescripts of poems submitted for publication and for use in readings. Stafford listed where he submitted each poem, and whether it was accepted for publication on the typescript. Each of his published collections, large and small, is represented by its gathering of documentary copies (typescripts), called by Stafford a “put-together.” Unpublished poems, poems published in journals, and reading copies of published poems were also gathered, in a virtually complete record from 1937 to 1993, totaling about 7,000 items. The collection also includes copies of all known Stafford books and translations. Stafford saved correspondence received, with an indication of the date of reply, and sometimes a copy of the reply, from the early 1960s to August 1993. Estimated at 100,000 sheets, the collected correspondence contains some full exchanges of correspondence initiated by WS. One such exchange is the correspondence with Marvin Bell on their sequence
Includes casette, DAT, and CD recordings of Stafford reading his poetry.
Arranged by format, place of recording, and date.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
The William Stafford Archives, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
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These recordings were all transferred to DAT tapes and compact disc. The DAT tapes are located in box 3 of this listing. The CD's are located in boxes 4-7, and their detailed contents are shown in that portion of this listing.
These recordings were all transferred to compact disc. The CD's are located in boxes 4-7, and their detailed contents are shown in that portion of the listing.
Includes: Introduction by Quinn Mumford; "Standing in the Library"; "Religion Back Home"; "A Walk in the Country"; "One Home"; "Report to Crazy Horse"; "Passing Remark"; "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "In the Night Desert"; "Fifteen"; "Found in a Storm"; "Confession of a Reader"; "Elegy"; "The Poets' Annual Indigence Report"; "At the Grave of my Brother"; "A Gesture Toward an Unfound Rennaissance"; "The Star in the Hills"; "Reaching Out to Turn on a Light"; "Fall Wind"; "A Message from the Wanderer"; "Fall Wind Music" (Robert Graham playing organ music written for WS poem).
Includes: "A Memorial Day"; "Old Dog"; "The Best Show in Vegas"; "Go 000"; "A Dedication"; "Hero"; In A Museum In The Capital"; "On A Picture Of Ava Gardner At Davidson University"; "A Girl Daddy Used To Know"; "Lit Instructor"; "Thinking For Berky"; "Vacation"; "Lines To Stop Talking By"; "Storm Warning"; "Another Old Guitar"; "The Moment"; "The Swerve"; "The Story That Could Be True"; "One Life"; "B.C."; "Always"; "Listening"; "The Rodeo At Sisters, Oregon"; "In The White Sky"; "From The Gradual Grass"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "What Lasts"; "The Girl Engaged To The Boy Who Died"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Carols Back Then, 1935"; "What I Heard Whispered At The Edge Of Liberal, Kansas"; "So Long"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "People Of The South Wind, Parts 1-4".
Includes: "The Poet in the Technological World" (William Stafford's Address); The Poets' Annual Indigence Report; "Local decisions..."; WS reads translation of "Two"; WS comments, responses; "The degree to which a person is a good poet..."; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound" (Parts I & II); "At This Point On The Page"; "Another Old Guitar"; "In The White Sky"; "The Best Show In Vegas"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School".
Includes: "Elegy"; "Now"; "Our Time's Named"; "Witness"; "No More School"; "The Stick In The Forest"; "People Who Went By In Winter"; "Blackberries Are Back"; "Composed, Composed"; "Have You Heard This One?"; "Understanding"; "A Song In The Manner Of Flannery O'Connor"; "Dear Mother"; "The Eskimo National Anthem"; "For The Governor"; "Juncos"; "The Moment"; "Report From A Far Place"; Introduction by Lewis and Clark President Howard; "For The Governor".
Includes: Introduction by Grey Elliott; "Thinking For Berky"; "Some Shadows"; "Religion Back Home"; "At The Chairman's Housewarming"; "B.C."; "Reaching Out To Turn On A Light"; At This Point On The Page"; "In The Night Desert"; "A Dedication"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Aunt Mabel"; "Lit Instructor"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "Willa Cather"; "Passing Remark"; "Fifteen"; "I want to read a piece..."; "At The Klamath Berry Festival"; "Judgements".
Includes: Introduction by WS and others; "The Woman At Banff"; "Near"; "New Letters From Thomas Jefferson"; "Waking At 3 A.M."; "Thirteenth And Pennsylvania"; Reads from Chapter 2 of Dracula.
Includes: "From The Gradual Grass"; "A Dedication"; "At The Bomb Testing Site"; "Public Speech"; "Watching The Jet Planes Dive"; "Religion Back Home"; "Some Shadows"; "Thinking For Berky" (particularly good reading); "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "We'd have a old car..." (Conversation); "In The Night Desert"; "Flowers At An Airport"; "A Sound From The Earth"; "Strokes"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Aunt Mabel"; "The Star In The Hills"; "A Message From The Wanderer"; "Ghazal" #1-10.
Includes: Introduction; "Some Shadows"; "B.C."; "The Day I Got The Good Idea"; "A Survey"; "At This Point On The Page"; "In The Oregon Country"; "Looking For Someone"; "Homecoming"; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound" (Parts I & II); "The Day After Then"; "Lit Instructor"; "Lake Chelan"; "Listening"; "Our City Is Guarded By Automatic Rockets"; "Bulletin"; "Passing Remark".
Includes: Introduction; "Lines To Stop Talking By"; "Some Shadows"; "Santa's Workshop"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Today"; "In Camp"; "The Best Show In Vegas"; "On A Picture Of Ava Gardner At Davidson University"; "With The Gift Of A Flower For The First Birthday Of The Computer Of Humble Oil On The North Slope Of Alaska"; "In The Night Desert"; "Wovoka's Witness"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Growing Up"; "The Story That Could Be True"; "This Town: Winter Morning"; "A Memorial Day"; "The Moment"; "Witness"; "Reaching Out To Turn On A Light"; "B.C."; "Old Dog"; "Aunt Mabel"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border".
Includes: Introduction and reading of Mrs. Cooper; Introduction by Charles Ludlum; "The Moment Again"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "The Star In The Hills"; "The Move To California"; "Witness"; "Knife Dialogue"; "What Ever Happened To The Beats?"; "Peace Walk"; "On Her Slate At School"; "We'd have a old car..."; "Religion Back Home"; "B.C."; "Thinking For Berky"; "Not Having Wings"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Passing Remark"; "Lit Instructor"; "A Game And A Brother"; "Aunt Mabel"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "In The Night Desert".
Includes: Introduction; "When Saint Sebastian Came Down This Street"; "Thinking For Berky"; "On Her Slate At School"; "At Liberty School"; "Aunt Mabel"; "We'd have a old car..."; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Weather Report"; "The Day After Then"; "At The Sorting Room"; "Monument For A Friendly Girl At A Tenth Grade Party"; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound"; "Homecoming"; "Watching The Jet Planes Dive"; "Lit Instructor"; "At The Klamath Berry Festival"; "Strokes"; "Read To The Last Line".
Includes: Introduction; "A Walk In The Country"; "Religion Back Home"; "Thinking For Berky"; "We'd have a old car..."; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Flowers At An Airport"; "Aunt Mabel"; "At This Point On The Page"; "When We Were Poor"; "Volkswagen"; "In The Night Desert"; "Passing Remark"; "Publius Vergilius Maro"; "Bess"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "A Sound From The Earth"; "At The Grave Of My Brother"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Fifteen"; "A Message From The Wanderer".
Includes: Interview conducted by WS with Kenneth O. Hanson.
Includes: Introduction; "In The Desert"; "From Hole-In-The-Ground"; "Lines To Stop Talking By"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Bess"; "New Letters From Thomas Jefferson"; "With The Gift Of A Flower For The First Birthday Of The Computer Of Humble Oil On The North Slope Of Alaska"; ".38"; "Report To Crazy Horse"; "In The Oregon Country"; "Homecoming"; "Holding The Roethke Chair"; "Across Kansas"; "Another Old Guitar"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune"; "In Dear Detail, By Ideal Light" (Includes unpublished Part III).
Includes: Interview; "Traveling Through The Dark"; "Parentage"; "At This Point On The Page"; "Near"; "The Poets' Annual Indigence Report"; "Thinking For Berky"; "Now Reporting Back"; "The Poets' Annual Indigence Report"; "Religion Back Home"; "Lamentations" (Choral music).
Includes: Introduction; Monologue; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "We'd have a old car..."; Discusses literary devices, reads examples authored by others; "Lit Instructor".
Includes: Introduction; "Some Shadows"; "Religion Back Home"; "Thinking For Berky"; "Old Dog"; "Aunt Mabel"; "We'd have a old car..."; "The Best Show In Vegas"; "In The Night Desert"; "Passing Remark"; "Fifteen" (word changes); "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "At The Grave Of My Brother"; "The Star In The Hills"; "On The Poly Sci Bulletin Board"; "Room 000"; "New Letters From Thomas Jefferson"; "Bess"; "Watching The Jet Planes Dive"; "A Dedication".
Includes: Introduction by Steven Dunning; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; WS's speech; questions from teachers in the audience.
Includes: "Absences"; "How It Began"; "Serving With Gideon"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Incident"; "Yellow Cars"; "Anticipating"; "Dropout"; "Revelation"; "Once In The 40s"; "Objector"; "School Days"; "My Father: October 1942"; "A Walk In The Country"; "With Neighbors One Afternoon"; "Judgements"; "At The Klamath Berry Festival"; "The Farm On The Great Plains"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Maybe"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Ask Me"; "One Time"; "Religion Back Home"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance".
Includes: "Confessor"; "When You Go Anywhere"; "Always"; "A Catechism"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "After Arguing Against The Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent"; "Ask Me"; "Clash"; "Looking Across The River"; "How It Is With Family"; "Tuned In Late One Night"; "Another Old Guitar"; "School Days"; "One Time"; "Our Kind"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "What I'll See That Afternoon"; "A Course In Creative Writing"; "Thinking For Berky"; "One Of The Many Dreams Of Childhood"; "Religion Back Home"; "How It Began"; "Aunt Mabel"; "On The Road Last Night"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "The Moment Again"; "Witness".
Includes: "Incident"; Interview with WS and Kim Stafford; "The Big House"; "Our Kind"; "Noticing"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "Poet In A Strange Land"; Introduction to Earth Friendship Group; "West Of Here"; "At This Point On The Page"; "Meeting An Old Friend in the Supermarket"; "Entering History"; "Over The Mountains"; "First Grade"; "A Ritual To Read To Each Other".
Includes: "Out West"; "Passing Remark"; "Ask Me"; "The Farm On The Great Plains"; "At This Point On The Page"; Introduction; "Witness"; "Absences"; "Serving With Gideon"; "How It Began"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "School Days"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Once In A Dream"; "Maybe"; "Incident"; "Our Kind"; "A Catechism"; "Yellow Cars"; "Religion Back Home"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Once In The 40s"; "A Walk In The Country"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "Thinking For Berky"; "Passing Remark"; "With Neighbors One Afternoon".
Includes: Introduction by Tom Simario; "Run Before Dawn"; "Ask Me"; "Saint Matthew And All"; "Scripture"; "Absences"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Serving With Gideon"; "With Neighbors One Afternoon"; "Incident"; "Noticing"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Poet In A Strange Land"; "So Long"; "Report From A Far Place"; "Answerers"; "Waking At 3 A.M."; "The Earth"; "End Of The Man Experiment"; "At The Bomb Testing Site"; "After That Sound, After That Sight"; "Our City Is Guarded By Automatic Rockets"; "Outside"; "Learning Your Place"; "Old Dog"; "Crossing The Desert"; "An Epiphany"; "Believing What I Know"; "What It Is"; "Wherever You Go On The Island"; "Dawn On The Warm Springs Reservation"; "An Offering".
Includes: "A Walk In The Country"; "Religion Back Home"; "Thinking For Berky"; "We'd have a old car..."; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Flowers At An Airport"; "Aunt Mabel"; "At This Point On The Page"; "When We Were Poor"; "Volkswagen"; "In The Night Desert"; "Passing Remark"; "The Job"; "Publius Vergilius Maro"; "Bess"; "Lake Chelan"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "A Sound From The Earth"; "At The Grave Of My Brother"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Judgements"; "A Message From The Wanderer".
Includes: "A Day To Remember"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "Clash"; "Looking Across the River"; "Solzenitsyn's Address"; "the Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Ask Me"; "At The Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "Mr. Fear"; "The Moment"; "What I'll See That Afternoon"; "How It Is With Family"; "A Catechism"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Confessor"; "When You Go Anywhere"; "One Time"; "Remember TJ?"; "Plaque for a Minor College Building"; "A Way Back Then"; "Faculty Portraits"; "Our Kind"; "Thinking About Being Called Simple By a Critic"; "School Days"; "How It Began"; "This Book"; "Peace Walk"; "A Talk At The Beginning of Class"; "A Dedication"; "A Course In Creative Writing"; "The Dream Of Now".
Includes: "The Dream of Now"; "In The Night Desert"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Reading With Little Sister: A Recollection"; "Growing Up"; "Keepsakes"; "Living Statues"; "Worldly Considerations"; "One Of The Many Dreams Of Childhood"; "From Tombstones Back Home"; "The Light By The Barn"; "Explaining The Big One"; "B.C."; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Easter Morning"; "Sure You Do"; "An Author's House"; "News Everyday"; "Evidence"; "Oldtimers"; "Year's End"; "Writing It Down"; "Old Glory"; "The Magic Mountain"; "Over The Mountains"; "Our Kind"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Saint Matthew and All"; "Elegy"; "Now"; "Our Time's Named"; "Witness"; "No More School"; "The Stick In The Forest"; "People Who Went By In Winter"; "Blackberries Are Back"; "Composed, Composed"; "Have You Heard This One?"; "Understanding"; "A Song In The Manner Of Flannery O'Connor"; "Dear Mother"; "Eskimo National Anthem"; "For The Governor"; "Juncos"; "The Moment"; "Report From A Far Place".
Includes: WS reading of 'A River Runs Through It'; "Starting With Little Things"; "An Emmy Award: Sodom"; "Roll Call"; "Vocatus atque non vocatus"; "Some Things In My Fantasy Life"; "Incident"; "School Days"; "Scripture"; "Tracks in the Sand"; "At the Edge"; "A Lesson in Biology"; "Ode to Garlic"; "On the Bookrack at Corner Drug"; "The Way I Write"; "The Moment Again"; "Your Life"; "The Big House"; "Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron"; "Today"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Assurance"; "Yellow Cars".
Includes: Readings by Stephen Dunning intermixed; "Coming Back (Coming Back to Williamsburg)"; "Witness"; "Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "Accountability"; "Lit Instructor"; "When I Met My Muse"; "Another Old Guitar"; "The Star in the Hills"; "First Grade"; story told by WS; presentation with musical score"; "Trees follow the wind. Mountains do their own Tai Chi".
Includes: "Always"; "Confessor"; "Witness"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"; "Ask Me"; "A Catechism"; "One of the Many Dreams of Childhood"; "Our Kind"; "With Neighbors One Afternoon"; "Incident"; "How It Began"; "Absences"; "The Star in the Hills"; "Murder Bridge"; "One Time"; "Religion Back Home"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Thinking for Berky"; "A Gesture Toward an Unfound Renaissance"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party"; "The Dream of Now"; "A Walk in the Country"; "So Long"; Introduction for KOAP; "Thinking for Berky"; "Peace Walk"; "The Tillamook Burn"; "At the Chairman's Housewarming"; "B.C."; "War Monuments".
Includes: Introduction; "Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "Scripture"; "First Grade"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Ode to Garlic"; "Witness"; "Ground Zero"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "Key of C--An Interlude For Marvin"; "Run Before Dawn"; "Coming To Know"; "Graffiti"; "Once In The 40s".
Includes: Introduction by Ingrid Wendt; "Things In The Wild Need Salt"; "Some Shadows"; "Coming Back"; "Growing Up"; "Next Time"; "Incident"; "Experiments"; "Faux Pas"; "A Child Of Our Century"; "Noticing"; "Leaving A Writer's Conference"; "A Memorial For My Mother"; "All The Time"; "At Memorial Park"; "Watching A Candle"; "Those Others Who Live In The Tide"; KS storytelling and reading of end of an interview.
Kim Stafford continues storytelling, then reads poem "A Sermon on Eve"; "Clash" read by William Stafford.
Includes: Introduction; Stafford's response to introduction; Stafford's address; "When I Met My Muse"; "Accountability".
Includes: "Always"; "Witness"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "A Ritual To Read To Each Other"; "Message From One Of The Snuffies"; "Second Message From One Of The Snuffies"; "Not Having Wings"; "In The Night Desert"; "A Sound From The Earth"; "Thinking For Berky"; "Accepting Surprise"; "Freedom"; "Growing Up"; "The Farm On The Great Plains"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach" (different version from that published in other places); "At This Point On The Page"; "A Game And A Brother"; "B.C."; "Earth Dweller"; "A Scene"; "Bess"; "A Dedication"; "A Message From The Wanderer".
Includes: "Ask Me"; "Religion Back Home"; "Thinking For Berky"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "The Best Show In Vegas"; "Aunt Mabel"; "Witness"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "In The Night Desert"; "Freedom"; "Breath"; "The Star In The Hills"; "One Life"; "Passing Remark"; "A Walk In The Country"; "Another Old Guitar"; "The Farm On The Great Plains"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "The Poet Thinks Of Searching Questions During An Interview"; "A Poem To Me On My Birthday"; "Father And Son"; "A Message From The Wanderer".
Includes: WS commentary and discussion with audience.
Includes: WS commentary. Unlabeled.
Includes: Introduction; "Lines To Start Talking By"; "Near" (different from published versions); "Lit Instructor"; "Wounded Knee"; "This Town: Winter Morning"; "World Staccato"; "A Death On Bastille Day, 1965"; "A Documentary From America"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "There Is A Dream"; "Listening"; "At The Playground"; "Always"; "Growing Up"; "A Dedication"; "The Rodeo At Sisters, Oregon"; "With The Gift Of A Flower For The First Birthday Of The Computer Of Humble Oil On The North Slope Of Alaska"; "Many Things Are Hidden By The Light"; "A Story For A Winter Night"; "Old Hero"; "A Glimpse Of The Path"; "When We Were Poor"; "Storm Warning"; "Written On A Poetry Circuit"; "Song Now"; questions from the audience; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound, Part I".
Includes: Exchange with audience member; "A Ritual To Read Each Other"; "We'd have a old car..."; "West Of Your City" and "The Farm On The Great Plains" are sung; introduction by Fran Ringold in Tulsa; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Once In The 40s"; "One Of The Many Dreams Of Childhood"; "Our Kind"; "At The Playground"; "The Swerve"; "How It Is With Family"; "The Star In The Hills"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; discussion of "Clash"; "Looking Across The River"; "Serving With Gideon"; "B.C."; "Tuned In Late One Night".
Includes: Readings of and comments on Richard Hugo's poetry; "Absences"; "How It Began"; "Serving With Gideon"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Maybe"; "Yellow Cars"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Revelation"; "A Catechism"; WS readings of other northwest poets; "The Star In The Hills"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Heroes"; "We'd have a old car..."; "School Days"; "Once In The 40s"; "Once In A Dream"; "School Play"; "Aunt Mabel".
Includes: "Father and Son"; "Good Thought"; "Reality"; "Stillborn"; "Looking Back on the Weaving Room"; "Scars"; "Barnum and Bailey"; "It Is"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "Stone, Paper, Scissors"; "Our Kind"; "How It Is With Family"; "Key of C: An Interlude for Marvin"; "Friends"; "At the Playground"; "School Days"; "Witness"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Aunt Mabel"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "A Sound from the Earth"; "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; "At the Grave of My Brother"; "Once in the 40s"; "Scripture"; "Yellow Cars"; "Maybe"; "Incident"; "Passing Remark"; "Across Kansas"; "Ask Me"; "Why I Am Happy".
Includes: "How It Began"; "Our Cave"; "Learning to Like the New School"; "School Days"; "Dark Wind"; "Murder Bridge"; "Our Kind"; "Salvaged Parts"; "Remembering Brother Bob"; "Troubleshooting"; "How to Get Back"; "A Glass face in the Rain"; "A Child's Face in a Small Town"; "If I Could Be Like Wallace Stevens"; "In a Corner"; "Not Very Loud"; "Yellow Cars"; "Torque"; "Revelation"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Incident"; "We Interrupt to Bring You"; "From Hallmark of Somewhere"; "Report from a Far Place"; "A Visit Home"; "Before the Big Storm"; "Reaching Out to Turn On a Light"; "The Moment"; "Artist, Come Home"; "Now"; "Deer Stolen"; "Ask Me"; "Ceremony"; "One of the Years"; "People Who Went by in Winter"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "Vacation"; "Whispered into the Ground"; "People with Whetstones"; "Tornado"; "A Sound from the Earth"; "Things in the Wild Need Salt"; "Keepsakes"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "The Little Girl by th Fence at School"; "One Life"; "Song Now"; "A Song in the Manner of Flannery O'Connor"; "Absence"; "With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach"; "Incident"; "The Little Girl By the Fence at School"; "Another Twilight"; "Commitment"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "Aunt Mabel"; "When You Go Anywhere"; "Vespers".
Includes: Half of an introduction; "The Gift"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "Coming Back"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Incident"; "First Grade"; "Next Time"; "Poets to Consider for Next Season's Series"; "the Light by the Barn"; "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; "Your Life"; "Loyalty"; "Things in the Wild Need Salt"; "Once in the 40s"; interview conducted by Terry Hummer, OSU department of English; "Facing Dawn at OSU".
Includes: Introduction; "Deciding"; "Facing Dawn at OSU"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Bi-focal"; "Scripture"; "In the Night Desert"; "A Sound from the Earth"; "Passing Remark"; "School Days"; "Prophets"; "Ground Zero [Dec. 1982]"; "Our Kind"; "Dropout"; "Among the Weavers: Woven Sentences"; "A Story That Could Be True"; "Ask Me"; "B.C."; "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; "Loyalty"; "One Home"; "Little Things [Starting with Little Things]".
Includes: "We'd have a old car..."; "In the Oregon Country"; "The Research Team in the Mountains"; comments from WS and classroom speakers; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound" with music by Matthew Smith.
Includes: Introduction by Barbara LaMorticella; "Starting With Little Things"; "An Emmy Award: Sodom"; "Roll Call"; "Vocatus atque non vocatus"; "Some Things In My Fantasy Life"; "Incident"; "School Days"; "Scripture"; "Tracks In The Sand"; "At The Edge"; "A Lesson In Biology"; "Ode To Garlic"; "On The Bookrack At Corner Drugs"; "The Way I Write"; "The Moment Again"; "Your Life"; "The Big House"; "Spirit Of Place: Great Blue Heron"; "Today"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Assurance"; "Yellow Cars"; interview conducted by LaMorticella.
Includes: Discussion/summary of 1989 Fishtrap Gathering by WS and Mark Jaffe; "Story Time"; "The Way I Do It"; "Bonuses"; comments by WS; "Entering History" read by unidentified speaker; "Religion Back Home"; "A Ritual To Read To Each Other"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; "On A Church Lawn"; "Thinking For Berky"; "A Sound From the Earth"; "From The Gradual Grass"; "Passing Remark"; "Volkswagen"; "When We Were Poor"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Aunt Mabel"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border".
Includes: "The Sky"; "Keepsakes"; "Run Before Dawn"; "What's In My Journal"; "The Trouble With Reading"; "The White Room"; "Over The Mountains"; "Faux Pas"; "B.C."; "The Bush From Mongolia"; "A Catechism"; "Tragedy"; "In The Book"; "Coyote"; "Witness"; "Vocatus atque non vocatus"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Birthright"; "Something You Know"; "Coming To Billings"; "With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach"; " A Life, A Ritual"; "Bedtime Story"; "One Life"; "A Country Epitaph".
Includes: Introduction by LaurieAnn David; "West of Here"; "the Way I Do It"; "Easter Morning"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Living Statues"; "Reading With Little Sister: A Recollection"; "Wordly Considerations"; "Some People Know"; "Choosing A Dog"; "The Magic Mountain"; "Freedom of Expression"; "Our Kind"; "Incident"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "One Time"; "Meeting An Old Friend In The Supermarket"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "Faux Pas"; "Thinking Of Questions To Be Asked During An Interview"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Me"; "Just Thinking"; "Coyote"; "Explaining The Big One"; "Traveling through The Dark"; "Wovoka's Witness"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "The Sky".
Includes: Interview by university students; "Hearing the Song"; "Ask Me"; "You And Art"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Turn Over Your Hand"; "Being An American"; "Ground Zero"; "For The Unknown Enemy"; "Waiting In Line"; "Next Time"; "Looking For Gold".
Includes: Introduction; "West Of Here"; "Framing A Book: Dedication Page"; "Afterwards"; "Slow News From Our Place"; "Freedom Of Expression"; "Coyote"; "One Time"; "For The Record"; "The Way I Do It"; "Scripture"; "Considerations"; "Meeting An Old Friend In The Supermarket"; "Evidence"; "Easter Morning"; "From Tombstones Back Home"; "Mein Kampf"; "Viewpoint"; "Emily, This Place, and You"; "I'm Any Old Tree"; "Reaching Out To Turn On A Light"; "In The Book"; "Sometimes In The Form Of A Dog"; "Voyages, Discoveries"; "Just Thinking"; WS responses to questions from conference participants.
Includes: Introduction by Mrs. Marcus; "We'd have a old car..."; "Traveling Through The Dark"; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound, Parts 1 & 2"; "B.C."; "That Weather"; "Vacation"; "Mouse Night: One Of Our Games".
Includes: "Some Shadows" (text differs); "Thinking for Berky"; "Religion Back Home, Part 1"; "Religion Back Home, Part 2 through Part 4"; "Soft Answers" (same poem later called "B.C."); "Passing Remark"; "Back Home"; "A Dedication" (text differs); "At The Bomb Testing Site"; "Aunt Mabel" (text differs); "The Star In The Hills"; "You, Walter Cronkite"; "Peace Walk"; "In The Night Desert"; "Fifteen"; "Judgements"; "In The Oregon Country"; "Texas"; "At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "At This Point On The Page" (text differs); "The Research Team In The Mountains"; "On Her Slate At School"; "Fictions"; "The Farm On The Great Plains".
Includes: "The Way It Is"; "Something That Happens Right Now"; "Sayings of the Blind"; "Meditation in the Waiting Room"; "The Way I Write"; "Afterwards"; "Listening Around"; "What They Say"; "It's All Right"; "Assurance"; "We Interrupt to Bring You"; "Once in the 40s"; "In the Book"; "Reaching Out to Turn on a Light"; "Oldtimers"; "Living Statues"; "Eighty"; "One of the Many Dreams of Childhood"; "India"; "Emily, This PLace, and You"; "Just Thinking"; "Me"; "Easter Morning"; "West of Here."
Includes: "A Child of Our Century"; "Overheard through an Airduct in the Reference Library"; "Faux Pas"; "Next Time"; "In Camp"; "Banquet"; "Bedtime Story"; "Tracks in the Sand"; "Over the North Jetty"; "On a Church Lawn"; "So Long."
Includes: "How It Began"; "Vacation"; "A Catechism"; "Serving with Gideon."
Includes: "Ask Me"; "Ask Me"; "Thinking for Berky"; "The Farm on the Great Plains"; "Being an American"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Ground Zero"; "Report from a Far Place"; "Traveling through the Dark"; "A Catechism"; "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"; "Ask Me"; "Reading with Little Sister: A Recollection"; "Over the Mountains"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Thinking for Berky"; "Saint Matthew and All"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Things in the Wild Need Salt"; 'The Moment Again."
Includes: "A Life, A Ritual"; "Our Kind"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "Back Home"; "School Days"; "First Grade"; "Ode to Garlic"; "Fifteen"; "A Catechism"; "Your Life"; "The Farm on the Great Plains"; "Loyalty"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Religion Back Home"; "Starting With Little Things"; "Bess"; "Ask Me"; "We'd have a old car..."; "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"; "Ground Zero"; "So Long"; "Leaving A Writer's Conference"; "Conversation with Mr. Nixon."
Includes: "Press Conference"; "Press Conference Continued"; "Reception for Poets"; "Ask Me"; "Witness"; "At the Un-National Monument along the Candadian Border"; "Yellow Cars"; "The Little Girl by the Fence School"; "One Time"; "Once in the 40s"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "First Grade"; "Absences"; "Saint Matthew and All"; "This Hall Recalls."
Includes: "Students Ask Questions"; "This Hall Recalls"; "Willamette University, Salem, OR, Reading"; "Things in the Wild Need Salt"; "First Grade"; "Next Time"; "The Light by the Barn"; "Coming Back"; "The Big House"; "Scripture"; "Serving with Gideon"; "At This Point on the Page."
Includes: "A Memorial for My Mother"; "Incident"; "Loyalty"; "A Catechism"; "The Star in the Hills"; "At the Playground"; "A Look Returned"; "Thinking for Berky"; "They Suffer for Us"; " A Sound from the Earth"; "Run Before Dawn"; "Religion Back Home"; "we'd have a old car"; "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "William Stafford Talks about photographing John Haynes"; "WS and Marvin Bell discuss staying free as a writer."
Includes: "Telling You Carefully"; "Vince Wixon interviews WS in the library"; "Vince Wixon continues interviewing WS on campus"; "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"; "Vocation"; "Vocation (repeated)"; The Farm on the Great Plains"; "Traveling through the Dark"; "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"; "Watching the Jet Planes Dive"; "A Walk in the Country"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "Thinking for Berky (partial reading)"; "Late At Night"; "Listening"; "School Days"; "Looking Across the Water"; "Remembering Brother Bob"; "Poet in a Strange Land"; "Accepting What Comes"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Ground Zero"; "Being An American"; "Why I Am Happy"; "Stone, Paper, Scissors"; "A Memorial for My Mother"; "When You Go Anywhere."
Includes: "WS talks about patience in writing"; "Conversation between Kim Stafford and WS"; "we'd have a old car"; "Conversation between WS and Kim Stafford continues"; "WS and Kim Stafford have a conversation about understanding"; "Keeping a Journal"; "Saint Matthew and All."
Includes: "First Grade"; "Scripture"; "Pilgrims"; "Being An American"; "Reports from a Far Place"; "Ask Me"; "Ground Zero [December 1982]"; "Ground Zero (repeated)"; "At The Bomb Testing Site"; "The View From Here"; "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"; "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"; "Thinking for Berky"; "Thinking for Berky (repeated)"; "The Farm on the Great Plains"; "The Farm on the Great Plains (repeated)"; "Being An American"; "Being an American (repeated)"; "Serving With Gideon"; "Serving With Gideon" (repeated)"; "Ground Zero"; "Ground Zero (repeated)"; "Report from a Far Place"; "Report from a Far Place (repeated)"; "Traveling through the Dark"; "Traveling through the Dark (repeated)."
Includes: "Interviewer Vincent Wixon asks questions"; "Routine Around Here"; "WS discusses journal writing"; "WS discusses changes he made to the poem, "Over Near Chemalt."
Includes: "Over the Mountains"; "Over the Mountains"; WS commentary; "Coming Back."
Includes: "Critique"; WS disscusses publishing, etc.; "Coming Back".
Includes: "Meeting Al Old Friend In The Supermarket"; "At a Motel in Memphis"; WS comments; "Reading With Little Sister: A Recollection".
Includes: WS discusses revising; "It Gets Deep At Night"; "When it Comes"; "Things I Learned Last Week".
Includes: WS discussion; "Over The Mountains"; "Toward the End"; "The Sky"; "Want List"; "Old Growth"; "My NEA Poem"; "Influencial Writers"; "Atwater Kent"; "Tragedy"; "In The Night Desert"; "At This Point on the Page"; "Our Kind".
Includes: "Yellow Cars"; "Ask Me"; "The Star in the Hills"; "The Life of Wonder"; "A Child of Luck"; "The Light by the Barn"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; Introduction by Studs Terkel at Telecast of Panel Presentation; "An Oregon Message"; "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"; WS comments on "What Good Is Poetry?".
Includes: WS reads fragments, comments; "At this Point on the Page"; "Lit Instructor"; "Extended Haiku"; "In the Oregon Country"; "The Gift"; "At the Chairman's Housewarming"; "Listening"; comments in "Onstage At Quartz Mt.".
Includes: WS discusses humanities; "The Little Girl By the Fence At School"; "The Farm on the Great Plains".
Includes: Discussion between WS and Hugo; "In the Desert".
Includes: Interspersed readings by Hugo; "Out West"; "In Camp"; "Thirteenth and Pennsylvania"; "The Day After Then"; "One Life"; "A Poem to Me on My Birthday"; "Ask Me"; "Lit Instructor"; "Listening"; "Wovoka's Witness".
Includes: WS and Hugo alternate comments; "On a Church Lawn"; "The Rodeo at Sisters, Oregon"; "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "Accountability"; "A Gesture Toward an Unfound Renaissance"; "People of the South Wind (Parts 1-3); "Witness".
Includes: Introduction by Mary Slater; "The Gift"; "Absences"; "Loyalty"; "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "Our Kind"; "Forestry"; "The Bush from Mongolia"; "An Archival Print"; "How You Know"; "Roll Call"; "At This Point on the Page"; "Ode to Garlic"; "Key of C--An Interlude for Marvin"; "Incident"; "Things I Learned Last Week"; "Confessor"; "A Catechism"; "Saint Matthew and All"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Pilgrims"; "West of Here".
Includes: "Traveling through the Dark"; "Across Kansas"; WS discusses and answers questions; "An Oregon Message"; "An Introduction to Some Poems"; "Our People"; "Observation Car and Cigar"; "Flowers at an Airport" (begins with last stanza); "Earth Dweller" (begins with sixth line)' "Some Days of Its Gift"; "Allegiances" (partial reading); "The Moment"; "Glances"; "Composed, Composed"; "A Documentary from America"; "You, Walter Cronkite"; "Evening News" (begins with stanza two, reads rest of poem"; "Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets"; "Vocation" (omits three lines in center stanza).
Includes: "An Introduction to Some Poems", hosted by Al Poulin, Jr., with interviewer Jim Heynen; "Vocation"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "B.C."; "A Family Turn"; "The Stick in the Forest"; "Report from a Far Place".
Includes: "At This Point on the Page"; "A Memorial Day"; "Incident"; "Scripture"; "A Writer's Fountain Pen Talking"; "Just Some Names"; "One Time"; "Friends"; "Key of C, An Interlude for Marvin" (recording interrupted); "At the Grave of My Brother"; "Saying a Big Word"; "The Animal That Drank Up Sound"; "On A Church Lawn"; "One of the Stories"; "Clash"; "Why I Am Happy"; "Lie Detector"; "Farewell at a Writer's Conference".
Includes: Introduction; "Next Time"; "Witness"; "Coming Back"; "The Big House"; "A Gesture Toward an Unfound Renaissance"; "Our Kind"; "Scripture"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "Things in the Wild Need Salt"; "Serving with Gideon"; "At This Point on the Page"; "A Child of Our Century"; "Run Before Dawn"; "Incident"; "Loyalty"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "Once in the 40s"; "Lit Instructor"; "The Light by the Barn"; "Noticing"; "School Days"; "At the Playground"; "Yellow Cars".
Includes: "B.C."; "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; "Roll Call"; "The Bush from Mongolia"; "Old Growth"; "Forestry"; "A Memorial Day"; "West of Here"; "Witness"; "Serving with Gideon".
Includes: Discussion with WS's comments on aging; "Witness"; "Fall Wind"; "One Life"; "Whispered into the Ground"; "Any Time"; "That Time of Year"; "Surviving a Poetry Circuit"; "A Bird Inside a Box"; "In the White Sky"; "One of Your Lives"; "This Book"; "Strokes"; "A Living"; "The Swerve"; "Vespers".
Includes: Interview by Dick Lukes; "West of Here"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "The Magic Mountain"; "Easter Morning"; "A Country Epitaph"; "Thinking of Questions to be Asked During an Interview"; "What's in My Journal"; "A Report from Canine Operator Rover on the Motel At Grand Island"; "Living Statues"; "In The Book"; "Serving with Gideon"; "The White Room"; "Wordly Considerations"; "Choosing a Dog"; "Faux Pas"; "The Trouble Is".
Includes: "World Staccato"; "Many Things Are Hidden By The Light"; "The Fanatic"; "Things to Want"; "Whispered Into The Ground"; "Looking At A Pen"; "On A Church Lawn"; "When Saint Sebastian Came Down This Street"; "When We Were Poor"; "Existences"; "The Moment Again"; "Another Old Guitar"; "Starting With Little Things"; "Lit Instructor"; "How Dancing Began"; "The Well Rising"; "Watching The Jet Planes Dive"; "Judgments"; "A Gesture Toward An Unfound Renaissance"; "Rich Man"; "Beyond What The Stock Market Says: A Manifesto for Poets & Artists"; "Things That Happen"; "Lake Grove Presbyterian"; "Passports"; "My Life"; "We'd have a old car...".
Includes: "Witness"; "Serving with Gideon"; "Aunt Mabel"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "A Sound from the Earth"; "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; "At the Grave of My Brother"; "Once in the 40s"; "Scripture"; "Yellow Cars"; "Maybe"; "Incident"; "Passing Remark"; "Across Kansas"; "Ask Me"; "Why I Am Happy"; "Friends"; "Scars"; "It Is".
Includes: "The Poets' Annual Indegence Report"; "From the Gradual Grass"; "Memorials of a Tour Around Mt. Hood"; "From the Cage [Stop at the Zoo Filling Station]"; "Near"; "The Country of Thin Mountains"; "Mouse Night: One of Our Games"; "Near the Presidio"; "Recoil"; "Learning"; "In the Oregon Country"; "I Know A Man" (author Robert Creeley); "Believing What I Know"; "The Farm on the Great Plain"; "Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets"; "B.C."; "At Earle Birney's School".
Includes: "Wordly Considerations"; "The Dream of Now"; "In the Night Desert"; "The Little Girl by the Fence at School"; "The Way I Do It"; "Writing"; "Reading with Little Sister: A Recollection"; "Growing Up"; "Living Statues"; "One of the Many Dreams of Childhood"; "From Tombstones Back Home"; "The Light by the Barn"; "Easter Morning"; "Explaining the Big One".
Includes: "Witness"; "Serving With Gideon"; "A Life, A Ritual"; "A Sound From the Earth"; "Ode to Garlic"; "Birthdays"; "Explaining the Big One"; "Serving with Gideon"; "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "The Star In The Hills"; "Clash"; "Ground Zero"; "Peace Walk"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "Objector"; "Entering History"; "The Suffer Us"; "For the Unknown Enemy"; "Old Glory"; "Aunt Mabel"; "Report to Crazy Horse".
Includes: "Listeners"; "Reaching Out to Turn On A Light"; "The Gift"; "Evening News"; "Believing What I Know"; "Allegiances" (last stanza missing); "These Days"; "Earth Dweller"; "Our City is Guarded by Automatic Rockets"; "A New Time Is Here Now"; "A Documentary From America"; "Passing Remark"; "Our People"; "Bifocal"; "Parentage"; "The Poets' Annual Indigence Report"; "Universe is One Place"; "Vocation"; "A Lecture on the Elegy"; "Some Days Of its Gift"; "In the White Sky"; "In the Desert"; "The Moment"; "Composed, Composed"; "Have You Heard This One?"; "Our Time's Name"; "An Introduction to Some Poems"; "These Days"; Allegiances"; "Observation Car and Cigar"; "Believing What I Know"; "From Eastern Oregon"; "Reaching Out To Turn On the Light" (partial reading); "Glances"; "Observation Car and Cigar" (repeat); "Stories From Kansas"; "Glances" (repeat).
Includes: Interview with WS and Stephen Dunning, conducted by Shirley Smith; Introduction by Dunning; "Always"; "Looking Across the River"; "Clash"; "A Catechism"; "What I'll See That Afternoon"; "How It Is With Family"; "Our Kind"; "Confessor"; "A Bird Inside A Box"; "Once in the 40s"; "Ask Me"; "One Time"; "A Walk in the Country"; "When You Go Anywhere"; "When I Met My Muse"; "Looking At A Pen"; "A Course In Creative Writing"; "One of the Many Dreams of Childhood"; "Witness"; "Our Cave"; "The Little Girl By The Fence At School"; "Reaching Out to Turn On A Light"; "The Dream of Now"; "One Time" (second reading).
Includes: Introduction; "Near"; "A Ritual To Read To Each Other"; "Thinking for Berky"; "Aunt Mable"; "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"; "You, Walter Cronkite"; "The Star in the Hills"; "Soft Answers"; "Bess"; "A Sound from the Earth"; "Religion Back Home"; "In the Night Desert"; "Peace Walk"; "At the Bomb Testing Site"; "Judgments"; "A Dedication"; "A Message From the Wandered".
Includes: Interview conducted by Terkel; "A Ritual To Read To Each Other"; "Six Years Old"; "Lessons at Grandpa's Knees"; "In the Old House"; "Aunt Mabel"; "Waiting for Vesuvius"; "On A Statue Not In the Park Blocks"; "Globescope".
Includes: Jeffy Gundy interview with WS.
Includes: Jeff Gundy Interview with WS.
very faint recording of transferred from a 78 rpm audio disk in possession of Kim Stafford
Includes “Some Shadows,” “Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party,” “That Weather,” “Brother,” “Fifteen,” “Homecoming,” “Holding the Sky,” “Passing Remark,” “The Star in the Hills,” “The Museum at Tillamook,” “With One Launched Look,” and “The Farm on the Great Plains.”
Includes “Explaining the Big One,” “Serving with Gideon,” “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border,” “The Star in the Hills,” “Clash,” “Ground Zero,” “Peace Walk,” “At the Bomb Testing,” “Objector,” “Entering History,” “They Suffer for Us,” “For the Unknown Enemy,” “Old Glory,” “Aunt Mabel,” and “Report to Crazy Horse.” Ashland, OR: TTTD Productions.
Listings and descriptions of the audio recordings, including a written description of the migration project from reel-to-reel to DAT to CD by Vince and Patty Wixon.