百老汇书籍是东北波特兰的热闹的文学书店，最近举办了一个庆祝活动金斯塔福德，俄勒冈州的第九岁，新任命，诗人洛杉矶成功伊丽莎白伍迪为期两年的任期。我们事先遇到了一口靠近地点，加入了他的长期朋友和诗人和老师，蒂姆吉列。谈话在两个小时内时钟，并致力于Gusto和轻松。我们谈到了从他对教学的看法来讲述的主题，向奇怪的写作计划的危害verslandia，文学艺术'全国青年诗歌猛击，甚至到了晚期爱尔兰神秘和诗人，约翰奥多安（kim让他在这么多的重要方面介意），但这是真正的斯塔福德的看法 - 以及他的朋友看到​​他的方式 - 那些留下了几天的回声，也送给我回家庆祝州长凯特布朗吉祥的吉祥吉祥的约会。

伊斯勒诗人Laureate Kim Stafford在Eagle Creek。

与金斯塔福德聊天有点像走出时间。对他来说，有些东西既是永恒和多年生。He possesses a sort of egalitarian everyperson quality and inspires the feeling that he has always existed somewhere, that you could run into him anywhere, from a muddy river bank to a fancy lecture hall — that he’s spent a hundred lifetimes cultivating just the skills that make a great poet. His roots are deeply Midwestern, with a father (the poet William Stafford, who also served as Oregon’s poet laureate) from Hutchinson, Kansas, and a mother whose family hails from Beatrice, Nebraska — both quaint, conservative towns. But his parents met and fell in love in California, perhaps recognizing “each other’s homesick Midwest ways,” Kim wrote in his riveting book,清晨：记住我的父亲，威廉斯塔福德。

尽管早期发现家庭落后于他的“吉普赛人父亲”的家庭，但Kim曾在俄勒冈州的大部分成年人生活。由金的生命年份，他已经八次了。他的父亲“一直在寻找不同的工作。加利福尼亚州，爱荷华州，印第安纳州，阿拉斯加，从中西部到西海岸。我们这样做了几次，“年轻斯塔福德说。Even though there’s a hint of the way-back Midwest to him (a practicality, maybe, or a certain restraint and graciousness I always associate with some folks from my own birth region of Missouri) Kim belongs to Oregon as surely as rain belongs to the valley, a fact he seems proud of, and one that seems fitting for our new poet laureate. He relishes the diversity of our great state. “Having coast, mountains, Eastern Oregon, enables us to have different powers of thought than other, more homogenized environments,” he said. He also sees the benefit of connecting all of our disparate parts: “I am hoping that poetry can make the cultures of communities more diverse, the emotionally informed communities deepen, and make communities more curious about themselves and each other.”

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