Citadel of the Spirit

Here are the contents of the upcoming anthology to which I contributed an essay, "RISK IN REP: Remembering Peter Fornara’s Remarkable Theater Company." In addition to original essays, there are reprints of historical material. The book will come in at something like 600 pages. Quite an impressive anthology, I think, and I'm delighted to be included.

Citadel of the Spirit: A Literary Compendium Commemorating Oregon’s Sesquicentennial

Due out in Feb. 2009—Edited by Matt Love

List of writers contributing original essays:
Matt Love (introduction, epilogue, essay, editorial notes on previously published materials, epilogue) My essay is on Tom McCall Era
Monica Drake (gentrification)
Kassten Alonso (livability)
Kathleen Dean Moore (rain)
Charles Deemer (Portland theater in late 1970s)
David Horowitz (Runquist Brothers)
Evelyn Sharenov (9-11 in Oregon)
Cheryl Strayed (Oregon’s Strip club culture)
Bart King (Powells)
Michael Strelow (Wildflowers)
Joanna Rose (Paisely, Oregon)
Melissa Madenski (hatchery salmon)
Tom Webb (When Oregon turned into a Blue State)
Billy Hults (Mayor’s Ball)
Erin Ergenbright (Oregon food)
Gina Ochsner (Land use)
Brian Doyle (Beer)
Carla Perry (The War in Iraq Comes to Newport)
Dorthy Blackcrow Mack (St. Mary’s Peak)
Walt Curtis (Salmon on Clackamas River)
Katrine Barber (Camp Angel CO camp)
Thomas Edwards (WW 2 on the Oregon Coast)
Eckard Toy (KKK in Oregon)
Jeff Baker (Mac Court)
Joanna Miller (An update of Oregon official things)
David Milholland (The Steens Mts)
Ken Babbs (Ken Kesey)
Kim Stafford (Oregon’s first hippie, Glen Coffield)
Peter Wong (initiative and referendum process)
David Kohl (Portland Metropolitan Church)
David Hedges (Victory Over Development)
Kathy Pape (Weird marching bands in Portland)
Bobby Armstrong (Profile on Oregonian named Earl Snell)
Erick Mertz (baseball in Oregon)
Barbara Drake (Oregon’s Centennial)
Steve Anderson (rafting Clackamas River)
Haley Church (Motorcycling Columbia Gorge)
Brandon Lieberman (Satyricon rock club)
Kaia Sand (Vanport)
Shelly Washburne (Columbus Day Storm)
Alicia Williamson (marijuana)
Joe Kurmaske (Biking to Mt. Hood)
Amber Nortness (logging road culture)
Travis Champ (walking Mt. Neahkahnie)
Brianna Kent (a friend dying in Iraq)
Karl Love (coming to Oregon on train as a result of the Dust Bowl)
Ellen Waterson (Bend’s last mill)
Niki Price (coming to Oregon)
Bill Robbins (working in the woods)
Bill Rhoades (the sporting life in Oregon)
Shannon Carson (Moving from California to Oregon)