Bøker av Kim Stafford

As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake the world, lyric anthems for earth and kin.In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter's gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.

The five sections in Kim Stafford's Singer Come from Afar hold poems that summon war and peace, pandemic struggles, Earth imperatives, a seeker's spirit, and forge kinship. The former poet laureate of Oregon, Stafford has shared poems from this book in libraries, prisons, on reservations, with veterans, immigrants, homeless families, legislators, and students in schools. He writes for hidden heroes, resonant places, and for our chance to converge in spite of differences. Poems like ';Practicing the Complex Yes' and ';The Fact of Forgiveness' engineer tools for connection with the self, the community, and the Earth: ';It is a given you have failed . . . [but] the world can't keep its treasures from you.' For the early months of the pandemic, Stafford wrote and posted a poem for challenge and comfort each day on Instagram and published a series of chapbooks that traveled hand to hand to far placesto Norway, Egypt, and India. He views the writing and sharing of poetry as an essential act of testimony to sustain tikkun olam, the healing of the world. May this book be the hidden spring you seek.

Children in foster care are often misunderstood and unheard. "When Will I See My Family?" shows Alex and Derek''s first twenty-four hours in foster care. The book creates normalcy for children and provides comfort to know they are not alone when placed in a home. If you''re welcoming a child into your home, the story can spark conversation and shed light on the experience of being placed into a foster home. This book will help you relate to a foster child in your life, whether you''re a foster parent, sibling, teacher, neighbor, or friend.

In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls ""what we almost know"". By recommending ways for writers to seek beyond the self for material, he aims to demystify the process of writing.