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Joseph A. Soldati has published numerous poems in a variety of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Litchfield Review (Autumn 2008), Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, The Clackamas Literary Review, and Pointed Circle. Other of his poems have appeared on the Winning Writers poetry on-line site, most recently “Remembering Miss Baker,” an award-winning poem about his favorite high school English teacher. His poems have been published in many anthologies, including Sailing in the Mist of Time and Yes Poetry!  The latter by the Silverton, OR, Poetry Association--Joe has been a featured poet at the annual Silverton Poetry Festival.

Other journals in which his poems have appeared include 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.