“The Spar Tree” is a collection of essays, film photographs, and poems seeking to answer the essential question what does it mean to live in this place at this time?
Artistic renderings of the Central Cascades and a seeking of meaning in a natural context. Travelogues. Memories.
2019. 44 color pages, 5″x7.” 100% recycled coverstock.
$12.00 + S/H.
PW03- “SMOKESTACKERS! A HISTORY OF EVERETT, WASHINGTON”
These are stories of underdogs, the lives of real people, carefully researched and told with narrative flare. Immerse yourself in the world of Everett in the 20th century and be inspired as these true life stories play out under the smokestacks of a gritty mill town.
2018. 32 pages, illustrated. $10.00 + S/H.
PW02- “I SPEAK the SPELL”
OUT OF PRINT
DIY handmade chapbook. 12 poems. Reflections on personal agency, a search for the courage needed to countenance the reality of the present, a glimpse at fleeting figures of the past— told with sly humor, keen observation, and an appealing juxtaposition of high and low culture.
2018. 16 pages.
PW01- “ARIZONA LIGHT”
OUT OF PRINT
10 poems about family, identity, and the feeling of airstream trailers in Scottsdale.
2017. 24 pages.
Porter Wordsmith 