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Joseph A. Soldati has published numerous poems in a variety of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. This spring (2009) his poems will appear in the anthology, Beloved On The Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press), and in Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and the Humanities (Toronto, Canada). Other of his poems recently appeared in theThe Litchfield Review, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry; and on the Winning Writers poetry on-line site (www.winningwriters.com). Other journals in which his poems have appeared include Pointed Circle; The Clackamas Literary Review; Solo: A Journal of Poetry; Spanish Moss; Into The Teeth of the Wind; Hubbub; Fireweed; and Ruah: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry.  His poetry has also been published in the anthologies Across the Long Bridge; Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems; Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places; Demilitarized Zones: Veterans After Vietnam; Stafford’s Road; Carrying the Darkness: American Indochina--The Poetry of the Vietnam War; and Trains and Rain. 
 Flying Machines published by Icarus International, awarded him its year 2000 poetry prize for "Moon on the Wing.”  In May, 2006, Finishing Line Press published Joseph’s chapbook, Apocalypse Clam.  Scholarly books and journals in which his essays have been published include The Larcom Review, Pagan and Christian Anxiety, Essays in Literature, Emerson Society Quarterly, Kronos, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Praesidium.
 

      Joseph is the author of a scholarly book, Configurations of Faust (1980), a poetry collection, Making My Name (1990), and is co-editor, with Eduardo González-Viaña, of a bilingual volume of poems by Peruvian and Oregonian poets entitled O Poetry! ¡Oh Poesía! Poems of Oregon and Peru (1997). He is a former Chair and currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the Friends of William Stafford. See the interests page for more information. 
Joseph holds degrees from Oglethorpe University (B.A.), the University of California at Santa Barbara (M.A.), and Washington State University (Ph.D.). Now retired, he is Professor Emeritus of English at Western Oregon University. Honors and awards for teaching and scholarship include two Fulbright Fellowships--lecturing in Egypt, 1983-84, and in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, 1989-90. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his two cats, Roxanne and Tramp.