Interests:

Friends of William Stafford
Friends of Forest Park -- Joe works Saturdays on a volunteer trail maintenance crew.
Portland Art Museum
Multnomah Library
Oregon Food Bank
The Nature Conservancy
The Elephant Sanctuary

Recommended Books (a very short list of only a few favorites)

POETRY:

	Homer, Iliad and The Odyssey			Virgil, The Aeneid
	Dante, The Divine Comedy			Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
	Emily Dickinson -- Her poems			Federico García Lorca -- His poems

FICTION:

	Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne			The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll			The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
	Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner			Native Son, Richard Wright
	The Temporary Life, Eric Wasserman			Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
	The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber			Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
	Push, Sapphire			The Greek Passion, Nikos Kazantzakis