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The William Edgar Stafford Collection

William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on 17 January 1914. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. The author of 35 books, Stafford received the National Book Award in 1963 for Traveling Through the Dark and a 1992 Western States Book Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1970, a post now designated "American Poet Laureate." He was a professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, until his retirement in 1990. He died on 28 August 1993.

Selected local material

• Search the Axe library catalog for holdings:
  • William Stafford - Author Keyword Search
  • William Stafford - Subject Keyword Search
  • William Stafford - Title Keyword Search

• Calendar of William Stafford - Denise Low Correspondence

Links to related sites

• The Friends of William Stafford web site
• Kansas Poems of William Stafford by Denise Low
• Modern American Poetry - William Stafford (biographies, interviews, bibliography, reviews)
• A number of great Stafford links are located at News from Nowhere:
  • More Than Has Ever Been Found. Seventeen poems by William Stafford
  • The Sacred Blur, a biography by Mark Mitchell
  • The Sleep of Grass "A tribute in poetry to William Stafford"
• Poets.org entry on William Stafford
• Wikipedia > William Stafford
• William Stafford Memorial Page from Graywolf Press
  • Selected Poems from The Way It Is by William Stafford

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