Wordstock Festival of Words 2013

Bio: | Called the "Haiku Queen of Portland” by the Willamette Week, Margaret Chula has been writing Japanese poetry for thirty-five years. Her haiku have appeared in journals worldwide, on Tokyo train station billboards, at a construction site for the Orange Line in Portland, and on cans of Itoen tea sold in vending machines in Japan. She has published seven collections of poetry including Grinding my ink and Shadow Lines, which... Read More →

Bio: | Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen has six full-length books of poetry, most recently Understory, from Lost Horse Press in 2013. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Calyx, and the Internet’s Poetry Daily.  She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from... Read More →