Scott T. Starbuck

Author's Bio

Scott T. Starbuck is a Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College. A former fishing boat captain of the Starfisher in Depoe Bay, Oregon, he has been writing nature poems and activist poems for thirty years with over 200 of them appearing or forthcoming in journals or newspapers in Australia, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, and widely in the United States. After publicly challenging a representative of the offshore oil industry in 1989, he wrote The City of Depoe Bay's Memorial Against Offshore Oil Drilling to the Oregon Governor's Ocean Resources Management Task Force, and later worked for Greenpeace. In addition to being a teacher and poet, he makes clay art which is online at < http://www.critfc.org/Gala/07starbuck.html > and < http://columbiarivergallery.com/sculptors/scott-starbuck/ >. His next chapbook, Riverwalker, will be published by Mountains and Rivers Press in 2012.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

The Warrior Poems (Pudding House Publications, 2010), The Eyes of Those Who Broke Free (Pudding House Publications, 2000)

Anthologies:

Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2010), Salt, an Anthology of Oregon Coastal Poems (Nestucca Spit Press, 2005)

Journals:

Blueline, Hubbub, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Oregon English Journal, Owen Wister Review, Pemmican Press, Rougarou, Talking River, The Oregonian, The Raven Chronicles, Untitled Country Review

Prizes:

Starbuck's poem, "Jacob Describes the Man Behind the Counter," was one of five runners up from over 900 entries at the 2011 Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest in Venice, CA.

His recently-published chapbook, The Warrior Poems, was one of six finalists of over 500 entries at the 2009 Pudding House Chapbook Contest, featuring protest poems about human rights, animal rights, media distortions, Iraq War, sour economy, and the G.W. Bush presidency. The back cover notes, “Warrior is a muse who visits Pacific Northwest rivers.” It is available at jen@puddinghouse.com

Personal Favorites

Favorite Books:

A Glass Face in the Rain by William Stafford, The Moon Reflected Fire by Doug Anderson, What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread by Alden Nowlan, The Light the Dead See by Frank Stanford, River by Ted Hughes, American Primitive by Mary Oliver, Turtle Island by Gary Snyder, The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly, The River Why by David James Duncan, Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt, anything by Rumi or Kesey

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Listing last updated: February 20, 2012

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Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

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