Wind on the Waves

Kim Stafford has taught since 1979 at Lewis and Clark College, where he is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and codirector of the Documentary Studies program. He also serves as the literary executor for the estate of William Stafford. He has worked as an oral historian, letterpress printer, editor, photographer, teacher, and visiting writer in communities and colleges across the country, and in Italy, Scotland, and Bhutan. Stafford has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft; Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford; and Having Everything Right: Essays of Place. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award, and a Western States Book Award.

• Finding a Place to Be AfraidCourtship at Indian BeachCross the Water to Live Alone    Rogue WaveDiary Entry: Our CoastSweet Light ElegyFlavor of SolitudeBrother WindThe Play of Moving WaterMore Flower than Leaf  Phone Call   Coffee at the Eavesdrop Cafe   A Cove of Your Own    Creatures of the Mountain    I Thought It Would Be Bigger     A Bubble Can't Last Long        The Moon's WorkA Bed of Salted CedarWho Married Seal    Ocean Lullaby    Bear Cave Cove      More Children        Weekend at the Coast       Skull of the Jellyfish     Grandma Dewey      Shell Ash at the Midden     Pretty Intruder       Where Goes the Wind?      The Edge Effect in Jazz and Salt   Cedar Pirate      Knower and Forgetter      Ship Catch Wind     Salmon at Sweet Creek      Lonesome Bliss      A Wave's Purpose     Loon in the Spruce      Empty Handed       Out There      Hideaway       Conversation at the Stump        Go Ask the Owls    A Tree with Arms    Dune Buggy Dao Incandescence    Lucille and the Secrets of Fog    Storm Watch        I Know Every Rock in This Harbor      Razor Tongue of the Limpet      A Tug on the Line      Redhead Roundup      Inkling    Wind on the Waves     Acknowledgments