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<![CDATA[Scot Siegel, Author - News]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:53:43 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Skeleton Says, 2nd Edition!]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:14:29 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/skeleton-says-2nd-editionI am pleased to announce the publication of a second edition of my chapbook SKELETON SAYS by Nightjar Poetry Press. The first edition, published in 2010, had been out of print for years and this edition has several enhancements including new cover art designed by this author and some new and recently edited poems.

]]><![CDATA[Milwaukie Poetry Series Featured Author Dec 10, 2025]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:31:12 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/milwaukie-poetry-series-featured-author-dec-10-2025

December 10, Wednesday, 7:00 pm - Milwaukie Ledding Library Milwaukie Ledding Library Poetry Series Featured Reader 10660 SE 21st Ave. Milwaukie, OR 97222

]]><![CDATA[Tender Currencies now available]]>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 02:40:05 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/tender-currencies-to-release-jan-1-2025-now-available-for-preordersClick on the book to order!

]]><![CDATA[Tender Currencies receives Sally Albiso Award]]>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:19:41 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/tender-currencies-receives-sally-albiso-award

I am honored to have been selected for the Sally Albiso Poetry Award for my next full-length poetry book, Tender Currencies, due out from MoonPath Press, an imprint of Concrete Wolf, in 2025. Thank you, to the judge, Risa Denenberg, and publisher Lana Hechtman Ayers.

]]><![CDATA[Writing the Land: McKenzie River Trust - Willamette Confluence]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:03:09 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/writing-the-land-mckenzie-river-trust-willamette-confluence I am honored to have served as a commissioned writer for the McKenzie River Trust's Willamette Confluence property in Western Oregon, as part of the Writing the Land Project. See below, for the poem-video (Writing the Land, 2023) produced for this project.

Writing the Land also publishes wonderful anthologies containing profiles of land trusts/conservancies with associated poetry for lands across the United States. This year, poets Kristin Berger, Brittany Corrigan, and I each wrote for different lands within the McKenzie River Trust's holdings. I wrote for the Willamette Confluence, where the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the Willamette meet.

For more info about the Willamette Confluence and McKenzie River Trust, see: https://mckenzieriver.org/property/willamette-confluence/

]]><![CDATA[Featured on Pictures of Poets - Photos, Poems and Recordings]]>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 02:00:55 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/featured-on-pictures-of-poets-photos-poems-and-recordings

Pictures of Poets Website

]]><![CDATA[Playa-bound: A homecoming, a disappearing act]]>Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:47:53 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/playa-bound-a-homecoming-a-disappearing6293172I value the solitude, community of artists, and exposure to landscapes that residencies provide. The Great Basin in particular has had a powerful effect on my writing, as I’ve been traversing it for close to forty years, first as a ski racer in my teens traveling to events across the West, then as a geography student and eventually a professional land use planner working with small towns in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and beyond.

As a writer, over the years, I have been a fortunate recipient of multiple residencies with Playa at Summer Lake in Oregon’s Great Basin country. I’ll return this March to work on my next full length book of poems. I also hope to use the time to explore an idea for a nonfiction project that has been on my mind for a long time and should draw on my experience as a small-town planner and artist.

Thank you for reading, and happy trails.

]]><![CDATA[Fall Readings and Workshop]]>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:34:25 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/fall-readings-and-workshop9652119

Sept 2018 — Shotpout Residency and Writers Workshop, Oregon State University Spring Creek Project. I am honored to have been invited back to Shotpouch Cabin in the Oregon Coast Range for another residency, and to lead a writers workshop on Sept 29 at the end of my stay. More info here!

Oct 2018 — I’m delighted to be giving two readings in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon:

Oct 2, 7pm, Springfield Poetry Series, with Roy Seitz and Annie Lightheart. Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St, Springfield, OR 97477. More info here!

Oct 28 - Eugene River Road Readings. More info here!

]]><![CDATA[Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone - Now Available]]>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:50:26 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/daughters-here-daughters-gone-due-out-in-march4961576"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.

]]><![CDATA[Milwaukie Ledding Library Pond House Reading, Dec 13, 2017]]>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 02:29:52 GMThttps://www.scotsiegel.com/news/milwaukie-ledding-library-pond-house-reading-dec-13-20176675631New! Link to Dec 13, 2017 Reading.

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