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Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone - due out in March!

2/25/2018

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"Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone is not about loss but self-determination. It is a father’s prayer for his daughters, and daughters everywhere, as they remake the world in their vision." Please support this small press by purchasing a copy of the chapbook beginning mid-March here: Uttered Chaos Press.
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Milwaukie Ledding Library Pond House Reading, Dec 13, 2017

10/13/2017

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Praise for 'Constellation' in Hiram Poetry Review

7/29/2017

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Thank you, Henry Hughes and Hiram Poetry Review editors, for reviewing The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems. (Click cover photo.)

“When the power goes out / an older power switches on,” Scot Siegel tells us in his stellar collection, The Constellation of Extinct Stars... Generations, poets, problems, styles, solutions—even stars—come and go, but these words of Scot Siegel will stay bright long after the cover closes."
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Constellation Reviewed in High Desert Journal

1/19/2017

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Thank you, Jamie Houghton and High Desert Journal for reviewing The Constellation of Extinct Stars!

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You could say the poems in this book are like breadcrumbs of light, leading the reader through time, but more importantly, each one by itself is like a gentle, steady, point of eye contact. Siegel’s words stick,"
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Book Review in Terrain.org

9/18/2016

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Thank you, reviewer Mary Cisper and publisher Simmons Buntin, for this insightful and thought-provoking review of The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems. Please click on Terrain.org, or the above link, for the review, and please support this fine journal!
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More Readings On The Way

8/13/2016

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Thank you all, for the successful 2016-17 reading tour!
Stay tuned for more events in the Fall of 2017 and 2018.


Oregon

April 18, Tuesday at 7:00 pm
Scot Siegel and Paulann Petersen
Lake Oswego Library
​National Poetry Month, Honoring William Stafford

Washington

May 21, Sunday at 7:00 pm (workshop 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm)
Scot Siegel and Ann Tweedy
Book Tree Bookstore
609 Market St.
Kirkland, WA 98033
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May 23, Tuesday at 7:00 PM
Vancouver Barnes & Noble
Vancouver Plaza 7700 NE Fourth Plain Blvd
Vancouver, WA 98662

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Eastern Oregon

Feb. 13, 2017. Thursday at 7:00 pm
Pendleton Center for the Arts - First Draft Writers' Series
214 N. Main
Pendleton, OR 97801
http://pendletonarts.org/index_files/first_draft.htm


Arizona

Oct. 27, Thursday at 7:00 pm
Four Chambers Literary Series
The Coronado, Phx
2201 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85006


Oct. 28, 2016, Friday at 5:30 pm
Hosted by: Terrain.org.
​Sponsored by UofA
English Dept. & Institute for the Environment
Earth & Environmental Science Bldg., Rm S225
1177 E. Fourth St.
​Tucson, AZ 85719


Portland

Aug 14., 2016, Sunday at 7:00 pm
With Steve Williams
Stonehenge Studio - Studio Series
3508 SW Corbett Ave.
Portland, OR 97239
http://leahstenson.com/studio-series-at-stonehenge-studios/

Sept. 15, 2016, Thursday at 7:00 pm
Broadway Books - Comma Series
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
http://www.broadwaybooks.net

​October 16, 2016, Sunday at 3:00 pm
Peregrine Literary Series
Mary's Woods-Holy Names Heritage Center
17425 Holy Names Drive
Lake Oswego, OR 97034

Hillsboro

Nov. 28, 2016, Monday at 7:00 pm
Conversations With Writers
Reedville Presbyterian Church
2785 SW 209th Ave
Aloha, OR 97124
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Willamette Valley

Oct. 10, 2016. Monday at 7:00 pm
Grass Roots Bookstore
227 SW Second St.
Corvallis, OR
http://www.grassrootsbookstore.com


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Summer Readings and Book Signings in Poetland, Oregon

6/28/2016

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Book Launch Set, 2016 Reading Dates Coming Together

4/16/2016

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Please join me Wednesday, June 1, at 7:00 pm, as I launch my third full length book, "The Constellation of Extinct Stars, and Other Poems." The Oswego Heritage Council is hosting the reading and talk as part of their First Wednesday Series, in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and refreshments will be served.

Lake Oswego (Launch)

June 1, 2016, Wednesday at 7:00 pm
Oswego Heritage Council, Heritage House
398 10th Street
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
http://www.oswegoheritage.org/first-wednesday-series-1/

I hope you can make it, but if not other readings are being scheduled (click 'Read More', below) and you can always invite me to come to your town :)

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New Book, 'The Constellation of Extinct Stars,' Now Available!

3/12/2016

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This book took four years to write, but the writing spans a century of high desert history, human geography, and mythology, in only 76 pages of clear, crisp verse. Please spread the word!

Scot Siegel’s poetry very much reminds me of the poetry of Stephen Crane, the author of The Red Badge of Courage. This is to say that his poetry is precise, elliptical, vernacular, dramatic, anchored in narrative and—most important of all!—understandable ...

--Kevin Starr, California State Librarian Emeritus, and Professor of History, and Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
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Order Signed Copy Here

Sample Poems


February 14

No Valentine. Though Windy took me

to the Grange last night. Mrs Foster
frowns when that cowboy whistles.
Lucky for me, all the girls like to dance.

Wind from the northwest, cold and thick.
Snow by dusk. Storms approach like flocks
of swords. Summer Lake, an open wound.
The wind never lets up.

Last night, I tossed and turned. Tried
not to touch myself when the sleet came.
But June, ranch hand from Silver Lake,
fine red hair and gentle hands…

She found me in a sweat, entered my shack
through a trapdoor to a feverish dream.
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Good Bones

I want a home with good bones, a bungalow
from the 1920s with mahogany columns and
beaded wainscoting in the parlor.

I want maple floors well worn from years of
children’s slippers, lath plaster, and an attic
where boys hid airline liquor and pinups.

I want a home with catacombs for walls,
where the man of the house once stashed
his mistress’s many perfumed letters.

I want an oak front door with leaded glass
transom, and a warped front porch, which
when walked across feels like sailing drunk.

I want hand-hewn siding and a porch swing
with braided ropes that creak to the cadence
of my daydreams. I’d swing there for hours,

Sipping bourbon, spitting tobacco, squinting
across the way toward the neighbor lady’s
upstairs bedroom window--

Then I’d raise my glass, the sun sinking
through it, and watch the last of the day
slowly undress those whitewashed spindles--

The afterglow of history gently revealed
on the many fine weather-worn bones
of my good home.
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June 3

Full Lunar Eclipse, 1928

Windy left without a wink. His truck snaked north
along the stage route, left pumice stains, red plumes
on the bruised horizon. Hell-bent for a girl in Bend
whose father owns a mill, June says…

I scrub the griddle with Borax and gravel, so hard
my knuckles bleed. Beyond this hovel, dust devils
drill the onion flats, and the last of the geese
lift off from what’s left of Summer Lake.

Crazy-cracks riddle the playa. A drought they say.
All the women, but the sharecroppers’ daughters,
and a few teachers who’ve found better jobs,
will be wives by July. What am I going to do?

June leans forward, touches my wrist, says,
Follow your heart.
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New Baby On The Way!

2/28/2016

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The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems, my third full-length poetry collection, is set for release at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Los Angeles, March 30-April 2. If you are there please stop by the Salmon Poetry booth Friday, from 3-4 pm, where I will be signing copies!

If you are not attending AWP and would like a signed book, I'll have a limited number of copies which may be pre-ordered here
 and shipped to you. 

Reading dates will be announced here soon.
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