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This collection was written as part of two Artist-in-Residence programs co-sponsored by the Icicle Fund and Methow Arts Alliance to celebrate the conservation, history, and art of environmentally unique regions fed by the Methow and Wenatchee watersheds of north central Washington. They run through the historic homeland of indigenous people from the P’sqosa/Wenatchi, and Methow tribes. The mighty Columbia River was dammed displacing many tribal communities to make way for agriculture and settlement. The Methow River is home to a series of plaques featuring poems by William Stafford commissioned by the forest service in 1993, and the poems from the Methow River section often reflect Stafford’s. The poems in this collection invite us to live in harmony with the life they spawn in spite of environmental change. 

These are elegant meditations on two rivers and their watersheds, the Methow and the Wenatchee, informed by and appreciative of William Stafford’s river poems, and trustworthy in their own intimate knowledge of these waters, hidden landscapes and histories.